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Volunteering, with our partners or with other organizations, can be an unforgettable experience. Luckily, there are a wide range of opportunities for nurses to volunteer both locally and abroad. In this blog, we share just a few of the organizations and resources you can turn to when planning your volunteer experience. Keep in mind that […]

We have shared often the amazing and selfless work of our partners ReSurge International and Camp Ronald McDonald for Good Times, from performing life changing corrective surgery on burn victims and children with debilitating cleft palates around the world, to working here at home with the youngest patients battling for their lives against cancer. As […]

In 2009, a made for TV movie entitled, The Courageous Heart of Irina Sendler, told the story of a Polish nurse who on the pretense of giving typhus shots and working with the ill in the Warsaw Ghetto, smuggled out nearly 2,500 Jewish children and infants, provided them with false papers and foster homes that […]

We are proud and grateful with all that we have again been able to accomplish this past year with our Community of Compassion. With your help, our work touched and improved the lives of thousands around the world. –We continued to provide camperships to children for Camp Ronald McDonald.  To know that we are instrumental […]

The holidays are especially difficult for those battling illness, and especially for those in hospitals, nursing homes, or hospice facilities. Even with family and friends coming to visit, these facilities can bring on a feeling of isolation and loneliness that can be detrimental to health and healing.  While nurses play a pivotal role in the […]

Thanks to easy access to digital sources of communication, social media is becoming an increasingly effective, wide-ranging tool for nurses who seek apps, information, community, and communication. Beyond these benefits, social media is an essential tool for those who work as advocates for the profession of nursing, both those in the profession and those supporting […]

We recently came across this article, “What I Wish Someone Told Me BEFORE Becoming a Registered Nurse,” and found the insights worth sharing.  Not only are they helpful for nurses, we believe they apply to our lives and to our chosen professions. We hope you find this as meaningful as we did. ~Michael and Frida […]

At Barco’s Nightingale Foundation we encourage men and women to choose Nursing as their profession.  Even so, we recognize that not everyone may be sure about entering the nursing field. We believe that it is important to understand the challenges. Being a nurse comes with tremendous responsibilities. Often nurses work with people who at the […]

Frida and I want to thank our remarkable Community of Compassion for all your support and generous donations for this year in particular. We have such dedication and love to help us help more children each and every year. We also want to thank the many children that we have had the blessing to be […]

Each year we take time in November, around the time the United States celebrates Thanksgiving, to reflect on the blessings we have received and to thank all those who support us in our endeavors.  It is especially poignant this month with all that has occurred over the past few weeks around the world, to reflect […]