ST. LOUIS — At Goldfarb School of Nursing, students are learning the science of medicine and the art of caring. And for an extraordinary group of students this year, no one has to figure any of it out alone.
alk the halls of Goldfarb long enough and something becomes clear. At first, it seems like coincidence: two students who look alike. Then another pair. And another. Until the count reaches a number that stops even the faculty in their tracks: five sets of twins — 10 students — all enrolled at the same time, all choosing the same career and all doing it together.
“We got an email about it,” laughed Raonna Armstrong, who is in the school’s certified registered nurse anesthetist program alongside her twin sister, Tianna Brown. “We were like, there’s five of us.”
Different roads, same destination
The twins arrived at Goldfarb from remarkably different places…