This article is characterized as a narrative review of results and experiences published in the scientific literature through the Scielo database on the description of nursing professionals' performance in the care of victims of environmental and or natural disasters. Natural disasters are characterized as consequences of changes in nature influenced or not by humans and affect various regions of the world. In addition to the direct environmental impact, they also generate important political, economic, social and cultural effects by changing the dynamics of the affected society. Health care, in these cases, significantly involves the performance of nursing professionals through the promotion of care, reception and the guarantee of information that clarifies the impacted ones. The transition phase is considered key to initiating the post-disaster phase. Given this, we identified the need for improvements in public health emergency care in Brazil and its continuity. The reduction of the impacts caused by the disaster with emergency care is directly linked to the training of nursing professionals to provide quality care. Nursing performance is of paramount importance in situations of environmental and or natural disasters. It is fundamentally important for nurses to act in response to situations experienced by each family member during or after the disaster, being responsible for the planning and training of the team, determining the changes in health promotion in the hospital or primary care sectors.