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Parish Nurses
Parish Nursing is a ministry of health and healing that first developed in the Midwest in 1984. Today there are more than 4,000 Parish Nurses serving their congregations and communities. Parish Nursing provides people with an additional resource that combines the spiritual and physical components of health.
BUMC is fortunate to offer Parish Nursing to its members and the surrounding community. The Parish Nurses are Registered Nurses who provide specific services in a confidential manner with a Christian perspective.
Parish Nurses provide:
Health Consultation
Visitation in homes and health
care facilities
Referral Resources
Assistance in Pastoral Care
Health Education
Parish Nurses at BUMC will provide these services when invited by people in need. Contact with the Parish Nurses can be established by one of the Pastors, the Church Staff, or direct contact with one of the Parish Nurses.
Parish Nurse - Oneda Burleson Dyer
Oneda Burleson grew up on a farm in the beautiful mountains of North Carolina. She moved to Radford and attended Radford Community Hospital School of Nursing with academics at Radford College. After graduating, she and her husband of forty years moved to Blacksburg. She worked for Dr Boatwright, VT Student Health Service, Montgomery County Schools and The Montgomery County Health Department. She now works part time for Carilion Hospice, NRV, which has been the most rewarding of her nursing career. She finds Community Faith Nursing at BUMC spiritually fulfilling, and extends that nursing to Alta Mons two to four weeks each summer. She is the mother of four children and five grandchildren She enjoys mountain hiking, gardening, reading, VT football, and watching her grandchildren play baseball.
Parish Nurse - Barbara Bonham
Barbara Bonham graduated from Duke University School of Nursing in 1965. She worked at Yale-New Haven Hospital on the general and thoracic surgery floor for several months following graduation. In January 1966 Barbara and Hap married and lived in Columbia, South Carolina while Hap completed graduate school. While in Columbia, Barbara taught at the University of South Carolina in the associate degree nursing program. Barbara and Hap moved to Blacksburg in June 1969 when Jennifer, their older daughter, was six weeks old. Leslie, their second daughter, was born in the fall of 1970. When Barbara returned to work in 1976 she worked part time at Montgomery County Hospital on their medical-surgical floor. As the need for out patient surgery grew Barbara was one of the first nurses to staff the department. In 1988 Barbara returned to teaching once again in the Montgomery County Public Schools as the Family Life Nurse Educator for the middle schools. Barbara is happy to be able to continue her love of nursing through Faith Community Nursing at BUMC. She completed her Parish Nurse training with the College of Health Sciences in 2001.
Parish Nurse - Jan Notter
Jan has been a member of BUMC for over 25 years. Originally from Ohio, she graduated from Holzer Medical Center School of Nursing in Gallipolis with her RN degree. She specialized in pediatrics in Nebraska where her husband earned his graduate degrees. Moving to Blacksburg in 1978, Jan worked at the VT Student Health Center until returning to school at MCV for her Family Nurse Practitioner degree. She then worked with the Allegheny Health District for 11 years, joined the family for a year sabbatical in Australia, and was Pediatric Supervisor for Lewis Gale Clinic for 3 years. Jan then became the clinician for the pediatric, family planning, maternity, and travel clinics for the health departments of the NRV for 7 years. She worked Mont. Co. Schools’ mobile clinic for high risk kids for 5 years. When health problems forced early retirement, Jan tried several volunteer positions to find her “niche”. Then, in the fall of 2005, she took the Parish Nursing course from St. Louis University, Deaconess Hospitals. This enabled her to combine mission to the church community and nursing. Jan loves to sing and enjoys her cats, traveling, gardening, biking, reading, Sudoku, and water aerobics. She is married to David, an animal science genetics professor at VT. They have two girls, Heather in Alexandria, VA and Megan in Seattle, WA. Jan says it is a blessing to share the support and love of BUMC’s wonderful church family.
Health Closet at Blacksburg United Methodist Church
These are some of the medical items that are available for loan to our church family and to the community. If you need a medical item, please call the church office 552-5424 or Evelyn West 552-3388 before you go purchase an item.
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