Objectives: to map studies that analyze the audit process of nursing councils.
Methods: this is a scoping review, anchored in the JBI framework, with the guiding question: what is the evidence of the audit process of legal practice of nursing by class councils (COFEN/COREN system)? The searches were carried out in October and November 2022 without limitation of language and year.
Results: of the 9 selected studies, all are Brazilian and published from 2014 onwards.