Melissa Marie Bellamy, MSN, APRN, FNP-C is a Doctorate-prepared Family Nurse Practitioner who specializes in Family Medicine. Melissa’s previous experience includes internal medicine and pain management. Melissa’s other clinical experiences include Cardiovascular Intensive Critical Care, Med-Surgical Nurse, Orthopedic Nurse, and traveling across the United States serving her expertise and well-rounded knowledge of caring for patients with chronic diseases and conditions such as hypertension, diabetes, high cholesterol, COPD, and CAD.
Melissa’s completed her Bachelor of Science in Nursing at North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University in Greensboro, North Carolina. She later earned her Master of Science degree at Walden University in Minneapolis, Minnesota. In 2020, Melissa returned back to Walden University to obtain her Doctorate of Nursing Practice and is a candidate for 2023 graduation.
Melissa holds a National Certification with the American Academy of Nurse Practitioners. She holds both Advanced and Basic Life Support Certifications through American Heart Association. Throughout nearly 20 years of nursing experience, Melissa consistently makes her patients the center of their own care.
Melissa has continually stayed active in the surrounding communities and is a member of the Psi Chi Chapter of Chi Eta Phi Sorority, Inc. Chi Eta Phi Sorority, Inc. is an international non-profit professional service organization for registered professional nurses and student nurses representing many cultures and diverse ethnic backgrounds.
Melissa is also the founder of Black Nurses Rock Greater Charlotte Chapter, where nurses serve and fill in the gaps in the Greater Charlotte area. She teaches as an adjunct professor at Northern Kentucky University for their Family Nurse Practitioner Program. She is also a member of the Nu Alpha Zeta Chapter of Zeta Phi Beta Sorority, Inc.
Melissa is married to Mr. Robert Bellamy of Statesville, North Carolina, for over 18 years. They share 4 children and a granddaughter. Melissa is also a Faith-Believer in the local Christian communities.
After many obstacles and challenges of being a teenage parent, remembering her late aunt who died of breast cancer, and having a love for caring for others, she dreamed of owning her own clinic to help the underprivileged and filling in that healthcare gap. Melissa mentors nursing students and nurse practitioner students with hopes of instilling a core value of seeing patients as a person or individuals who depend on their provider’s wisdom and knowledge of caring for them as a whole – mind, body, and spirit. As has been quoted, “The best way to find yourself is to lose yourself in the service of others.” – the spoken words of Mahatma Gandhi. Serving my patients without reservations and without judgment always leads to the best prognosis of a patient’s illness or disease.
