Jessica Washington, a student at Barnes-Jewish College Goldfarb School of Nursing, recently was awarded the school’s 2019 Dr. Donald M. Suggs Minority Nursing Student Scholarship. Washington is a first-term nursing student in Goldfarb’s accelerated Bachelor of Science in Nursing program.

Rebecca Schamel was in the preceptorship of her nursing program at Barnes-Jewish College Goldfarb School of Nursing when the pandemic hit. Rather than finish their preceptorships in the hospital, nursing students were given two options: work through case studies online or volunteer at a COVID-19 testing site for BJC HealthCare. Schamel, who grew up in a family of nurses, volunteered.

“I went back and forth a bit but felt it was an opportunity to be a part of something the world hasn’t seen in a long time,” she says.

Over the course of two hours nursing students participated in a large-scale poverty simulation to learn about the challenges low-income families face in an effort to survive. The simulation was hosted by Barnes-Jewish College Goldfarb School of Nursing.

Barnes-Jewish College Goldfarb School of Nursing was just ranked number 8 out of 21 on the Nursing School Hub list of top nurse anesthetist programs in the United States. Nursing School Hub was established to provide useful information and resources to those interested in the field of nursing.

NursingSchoolsAlmanac.com ranked Goldfarb School of Nursing 43rd out of the top 100 nursing schools in the U.S. Barnes-Jewish College Goldfarb School of Nursing is among the top nursing schools in the United States, according to NursingSchoolsAlmanac.com’s inaugural rankings. 

As a consortial program with The Graduate School at Washington University in St. Louis, Goldfarb students pursuing a PhD in nursing have the chance to experience an interdisciplinary learning environment unlike any other program in the St. Louis area. Barnes-Jewish College Goldfarb School of Nursing is now accepting applications for the newly designed doctor of philosophy in nursing program. As a consortial program with The Graduate School at Washington University in St.

As of December 9, 2020 Goldfarb's Rheumatology Certificate Progam is currently on hold.