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At Barco’s Nightingales Foundation, we applaud and support the nursing community’s concerted effort to create a positive, professional public image of nurses. Today, when asked what comes to mind when we think of nurses the responses are a mix of ideas, even though ideally they should all be around professional attributes such as critical thinking, […]

Teams are entering the home stretch to raise funds for the 2015 Walk for Kids to be held April 12. Today, we’d like to introduce three more teams making a difference: HERE COMES TROUBLE captained by Sammy Lee, VISIONARIES OF PROSPERITY captained by Sandy Espana and Mylene Yates, and I AM HOPE captained by Annie […]

Overwhelming. Emotional. Welcomed. These are just a few of the feelings I experienced today during our first day back in Haiti. We are so grateful to have the opportunity once again to visit the our friends in the villages where we have solar water wells and where we provide hot lunches for 540 students, and […]

We are delighted to welcome Team ReSurge International to our 2015 Walk for Kids. We hope that you will join us by pledging your support or by joining us on Sunday, April 12, 2015 at Exposition Park in Los Angeles. Registration starts at: 7 a.m. and the Walk for Kids starts at 8 a.m. Your […]

Recently Barco’s Nightingales Foundation provided funding for Erin Marlin and Alana Baron, two amazingly talented nurses who serve on our Nurses Advisory Board, to travel on a medical mission to the Dominican Republic with Hispaniola Mountain Ministries. This blog is dedicated to sharing their stories in words and photos. We are very grateful for their […]

Teams are busy raising funds and planning amazing costumes and fun for the 2015 Walk for Kids to be held April 12. Meet teams MIRACLE SURVIVORS, captained by Alma Ahumada and Corinna Ortega, and BARCONIAN, captained by Manny Gutierrez and Evelyn Mendez. MIRACLE SURVIVORS tell us… We decided to join the team because, personally we enjoy […]

We are honored to share this amazing guest blog from our friends at Hispaniola Mountain Ministries. ~Michael and Frida Donner “I can’t even…I just can’t even deal.” Those were the words I said over and over – both aloud and in my head – after returning from my first trip to Haiti in June 2012. […]

We are so excited at the early support we are getting for the 2015 Walk for Kids to be held April 12. Over the next few weeks we will be introducing some of our teams and their captains.  Today, we’d like you to meet the SOUP – A – STARS with team captains Teresa Chaves […]

“Nursing And The Media” examines the way nurses are portrayed in the media and offers ideas that can shape and guide future depictions.

Recently, Barco’s Nightingales Foundation sponsored a medical mission trip for nurses Erin Marlin and Alana Baron to a remote village in the Dominican Republic. Here, Erin recounts their first day. Today we went to a remote village WAY up in the mountains called Santa Elena. There is super sad poverty there….kids without shoes, wearing dirty clothes, […]