Background: nurse educators are responsible for the preparation of nursing students for their future profession; they are vital and serve as a critical driving force to lead the progression of the next generation of professional nurses. If nurse educators perceive themselves as empowered in their jobs, they will be more confident in their skills and knowledge, be more engaged in their role. Aim: the aim of this study was to determine relation between nurse educators' empowerment and nursing students' clinical competence. Design: Descriptive correlational research design was used to achieve the aim of the current study. Setting: two nursing technical institute, one affiliated to university and another one affiliated to ministry of health at Minia city. Subjects: The subject of study was include all nurse educators at Minia Nursing technical institutes (n=20) and 50% of nursing students enrolled at 2 ^nd academic year 2018-2019 (n=350). Tools: three tools were used to collect data pertinent to the study as: Structural Empowerment Questionnaire; Psychological Empowerment Questionnaire; and Clinical Competence checklist. Results: The study revealed that highest percentage of nursing educators had moderate level of structural empowerment and high level of psychological empowerment. Regarding the total clinical competence mean score, there was highly statistical significance difference (P=0.000) between nursing students at two institutes in favor to Health Technical Institute had higher mean score (82.7 ± 4.6). Conclusion: this study concluded that, there was a positive correlation between nurse educators' empowerment and nursing students' clinical competence. Recommendations: Periodic training courses should be provided in order to keep nursing students updating knowledge, skills, and attitudes regarding to clinical practice and conducting workshops to develop nurse educators' empowerment.