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“I’m proud to be part of an organization that makes such magic happen.” –Jasmin Joya Jasmin Joya is a family relations and recruitment coordinator at Camp Ronald McDonald for Good Times, also known as Camp.  A recent hire, Jasmin’s relationship with Camp started back to 2007 when she first attended Camp as a camper. In […]

Women and men have served in the U.S. Armed Forces for over 100 years and on an individual, unofficial level for many years before that.  This Memorial Day, we honor all those in the military who gave their lives in service, including over 940 Army, Navy and Air Force nurses who died in the Spanish-American […]

We recently received these amazing photos from our friends at the Lighthouse Foundation, our partners in Haiti. These photos are from one of the many orphanages in the areas where we work and speak louder than any words about why we are committed to bringing clean water, food and clothing to the people of Haiti. […]

Sarah E. Orth is executive director of Camp Ronald McDonald for Good Times  and has served on the Advisory Board for Barco’s Nightingales Foundation since 2013. She has more than 15 years of experience in nonprofit management. Sarah earned her bachelor’s in Fine Arts from Fordham College at Lincoln Center and her master’s in public […]

Last week Barco’s Nightingales Foundation began The Letters Campaign. This program is designed to provide encouragement and support for new nurses and to provide insights with the general public about the leadership, professionalism and important role nurses perform every day. We are looking for 12 nurses to participate and hope that you will reach out […]

Last month we lost a dear friend and Barco Uniform’s family member, Teresa Chavez, to cancer. Teresa worked with us for three years and in all that time I never saw her without a bright, infectious smile. This was her priceless gift to our family, her family and to everyone whose life she touched – […]

This Nurses’ Week, ReSurge thanks Barco’s Nightingales for their support—support that enables volunteer nurses like Frankie, profiled below, to provide reconstructive surgery to our patients in developing countries.   A perioperative nurse at PeaceHealth St. Joseph’s Medial Medical Center in Bellingham, Wash., Frankie’s first trip with ReSurge was in 2007, after a fellow nurse told […]

Capturing a mother’s love is a rare thing. That’s why each of the images below is so poignant. As we celebrate mothers around the world, we hope this tribute in images bring back fond memories for each of you. Happy Mother’s Day from all of us at Barco’s Nightingales Foundation.           […]

National Nurses Week is one of the nation’s principal health care happenings, giving recognition to outstanding nurses and sharing nursing education with the public. The week’s festivities supported by the American Nurses Association (ANA), kick off with National Nurses Day on May 6, and include National Student Nurse Day on May 8th and International Nurses […]

If you’re currently working as a RN, you may be looked on as a leader by your colleagues, patients and their families. Whatever your aspirations in nursing, you can make an even stronger, positive contribution to the profession by developing effective leadership skills. Leadership in nursing is primarily about making decisions, delegating appropriately, resolving conflict […]