Sheron Salyer
I have been a professor at Belmont for more than five years. I have spent my nursing career caring for pregnant women and their families. I continue to teach Lamaze childbirth education classes in our community. My training includes certification in inpatient obstetrics and perinatal grief counseling.
I love all aspects of working with childbearing families and
enjoy having the opportunity to teach future nurses how to support
pregnant women through this wonderful family transition. I work in
both the undergraduate and graduate nursing programs at Belmont and
teach an on-line general education course, Health Beginnings:
preparing for pregnancy and birth.
I received my B.S.N. from the University of Alabama in Huntsville and my M.S.N. from the University of Alabama in Birmingham. Along with my formal education, I attended a Perinatal Institute at Cornell University in New York City, a Low Birth Weight Nursing Research Institute at the University of Pennsylvania, and a Genetics Institute at the University of Cincinnati. I am currently enrolled in the D.N.S.C. program at the University of Tennessee's Health Science Center in Memphis. As part of my doctoral program, I am completing a post-master's certificate in the SUNY at Stony Brook Midwifery Program in New York. My daughter went to college this year and we laugh about 'going to college together but at different schools'.
I have been very active with the youth in my church, doing mission work each summer. I hope to use my midwifery certification to expand my mission work to an international level. I have also trained as a Stephen Minister at my church and offered support to several members in my rural community. I have two children: a daughter who recently started college and a foster son who is completing his undergraduate education and looking at graduate schools.
Belmont University has been a very wonderful addition to my life's professional journey. I find the philosophy of the university compatible with the things in my life that I value. The faculty, staff and students are committed to providing compassionate, high quality nursing care to many diverse populations. We are committed to learning from each other and from those individuals we serve.
