Barbara has been a member of the New York State Nurses Association for more than 34 years. She recently went per diem at the intensive care unit at St. Catherine of Siena Medical Center in Smithtown, Long Island, to serve the National Federation of Nurses full-time.
In her professional life, Barbara is the assistant nursing care coordinator in the intensive care unit at St. Catherine of Siena Medical Center in Smithtown, Long Island and has served as the chair of the NYSNA local bargaining unit at her facility for more than a decade.
“It is with profound humility and gratitude that I pledge to serve registered nurses across this nation in working to build a strong national nurses’ movement,” Barbara says. “The goals of this new federated structure are straightforward and significant: to support, educate and assist our members in achieving their economic, workplace, and practice goals on both state and national levels. The NFN is committed to preserving the autonomy and self-governance of each of its member nurses’ labor organizations.”