The Richmond/Roanoke Semester

Would you like to experience exciting pediatric and medsurg clinical rotations at an outstanding short term acute care hospital in Richmond or Roanoke, Va.? If so, the Richmond or Roanoke semester might be something for you to consider.

• Stay in class with your friends while completing medsurg and peds clinicals in only five select weekends
• Gain the experience you need to be the pediatric nurse God has called you to become
• Gain medsurg experience that will be valuable in all areas of nursing

Applying for the Richmond or Roanoke Semester

Click on the link below to download the Richmond application. Carefully follow the directions for completion and application submission. Applications for the 2013-2014 Richmond Semester are due March 15, 2013. The application will appear on the website around Thanksgiving of each year.

Richmond and Roanoke Application/media/1112/Richmond-Application-Updated-2013-2014.doc

Richmond Semester

• Five Power Weekends during the semester
• Strong Pediatric Concentration
• Rotate through two different medical/surgical units
• Operating Room/Nurse Anesthetist Observational Experience
• Church Host Families provide student housing
• Experience a hospital that is faith based

St. Mary's Hospital

St. Mary's Hospital, located in Richmond's West End, has served the population of Central Virginia since 1966. Liberty University Nursing Students have had the unique opportunity to experience clinicals in this setting since the fall of 2008. St. Mary's is well known for:

• Excellent nurse to patient ratio
• 391 bed facility
• Comprehensive Pediatric Care
• Neonatal Intensive Care Unit
• Received Magnet Recognition in 2009
• Top 10 percent of Hospitals for Emergency Care            
• Nationally Recognized Joint Replacement Center
• Nationally Recognized Stroke Treatment Center

Roanoke Semester

• 5 Power Weekends that includes pediatric and medsurg clinicals
• Roanoke Memorial Hospital is a short drive of 1 hour and 15 minutes from Liberty University's Campus
• Experience a facility  dedicated to recognizing nurses providing holistic nursing care
• Contains the areas only dedicated hospital for children
• Pediatric specialties including cardiology, nephrology, and neurology

Carillion Roanoke Memorial Hospital

• One of the largest hospitals in the state of Virginia
• 703 bed hospital with a 60 bed neonatal intensive care unit
• Includes Carilion Clinic Children's Hospital complete with Pediatric Emergency Room
• Level I Trauma Center
• Magnet Designated

Nursing Clinical Faculty

Diane Bridge

B.S.N., M.S.N., Ed.D. in Progress
Assistant Professor of Nursing
Coordinator of Distant Clinical Sites
Assessment Coordinator for RN-B.S.N. and M.S.N. Online Programs

Hello! I am the Coordinator of Distant Clinical Sites at Liberty University. The Richmond program was started in 2008 and has enabled the nursing program at  Liberty University to expand its clinical sites to Richmond Virginia. I currently teach residential, clinical, and online classes at Liberty University. The Lord has provided a wonderful way for me to minister to the students through nursing education.

Personal Information

I was raised in a Christian home and accepted Christ as my personal Saviour at the age of five. I have been a registered nurse for 19 years, married to my amazing husband for 26 years, and have three daughters, Mariah-16, Madison-14, and Morgynne-11. We moved from Wisconsin to Virginia in June of 2008, after spending three years at a small Christian college where I assisted in the development of a new nursing program. I am originally from Pennsylvania and am a huge Penn State and Steeler fan. 

The Lord has provided me a wonderful opportunity to work with the Nursing department at Liberty University through the Richmond program. If you have any questions about this program or would like additional information, please feel free to contact me at dcbridge@liberty.edu

Hadassah Martin

RN, BSN, ICU RN
Chemotherapy Certified
Medical/Surgical and ICU background
Staff Nurse at St. Mary's Hospital

My name is Hadassah Martin. I was born and raised in Glen Allen, Va., very close to Richmond, where I currently live. I was fortunate to have Christian parents who led me to the Lord when I was in first grade.  I attended Liberty University where I graduated with a Bachelors of Science in nursing degree in May of 2006.  I was born at St. Mary’s and it has always been the hospital of choice for my family and me. I applied there after graduating and worked there as an Oncology nurse for four years before transferring to the general Intensive Care Unit in June of 2010. There I am enjoying learning to take care of a variety of critically-ill patients. I was blessed with the opportunity to begin teaching the Richmond students in fall of 2010. 

Bonnie Brown

ICU RN, BSN
Medsurg clinical faculty
Graduate of Liberty University's nursing program.

I was raised in a military family, but consider myself to be a native “Virginian,” having spent close to half of my life in the commonwealth. I consider myself very privileged to have completed my undergraduate work and earned a BSN at Liberty University’s school of nursing in 2006.  My career thus far has consisted of critical care nursing in which I worked for almost five years in an Intensive Care Unit in Louisville, Ky., before returning to Virginia. 

My family and I are very thankful to now be living in Richmond, Va., where my husband serves as an associate pastor at a local church.  We have two little girls, Lydia and Phoebe, age four and one respectively. They are what fill our home with love, joy, noise, laughs, tears and drama! And we thank the Lord for the sweet blessing of children. 

When going through nursing school at Liberty, one of the many nuggets of wisdom professors imparted to me was that, as nurses, we get to be the “hands and feet of Jesus.” This philosophy of work and ministry has been the guiding theme of my career. I am utterly humbled that God has brought me to a position as nursing faculty where I am now able to teach students what it is like to be the “hands and feet of Jesus.”  

Belinda Hensley

Pediatric Clinical Faculty
Graduate from Liberty's Nursing Program
Pediatric background
St. Mary's Pediatric Nurse
Home Health Nursing

Belinda Hensley is a graduate of our Liberty University nursing program. She and her husband Robb reside in Richmond, Va., along with their two children, Leah and Evan. She began her nursing career in in-patient rehab and then went on to pediatrics which is her favorite specialty. She worked as a staff nurse and charge nurse for eight years on the peds unit at St. Mary's Hospital in Richmond. She has now been teaching through our Richmond program for five years. She feels that it's an honor and blessing to be giving back to this wonderful university and nursing program.