Meet the Team

Belinda Lauriano

Instructor & Owner of Innovative Learning, LLC 

Belinda Lauriano has been a nurse for over 20 years. She began studying nursing at Southern University A&M in Baton Rouge, Louisiana but after being relocated to Virginia by the military she graduated from Norfolk State University in 2002  with her ADN. She then went on to earn her BSN from ECPI University. She was employed with Sentara Virginia Beach General Hospital for 17 years as a Charge Nurse, Preceptor and Clinical Coordinator. She has been a travel nurse since 2016.
She credits her mother with inspiring her to become a nurse. She was able to witness her mother’s hardwork and dedication as she attended nursing school while Ms. Lauriano was in middle school. When her mother became a nurse at a big hospital in Louisiana called Charity Hospital, she touched so many lives. The hospital employees there called her ‘Maw Brown.’ She saw how highly regarded her mother was as a nurse and that inspired Ms. Lauriano to become the best nurse that she could be. She says her mother foresaw her future as an educator, telling her that she believed she would grow up to be a teacher.
She became interested in becoming an educator in nursing when she became a preceptor while working at Sentara. Later an opportunity for her to become a clinical instructor at ECPI in Virginia Beach arose. Watching a student’s face light up as they master a new skill and grasp the importance of the skill is invaluable. There was one particular night she had a skill lab on teaching on how to take blood pressure manually. There was one student who thought she was not going to master this skill. She stayed with her after class until she did. She was deeply moved by the look on her student’s face. (She had been an instructor for less than 1 month). Seeing her student teeming with excitement and confidence as she accomplished the task was one of many encounters that inspired her to become a nurse educator.
She often encounters individuals who are task oriented without understanding why. In nursing she believes it is important to understand both. She asserts that nurse educators have the responsibility of teaching not only the task itself, but why the task is necessary as well. As a nurse and a nurse educator she strives daily to learn something new and to do it with character and integrity. She is receptive to new ways of learning because nursing is an evolving profession. "In learning you will teach; by teaching you will learn.' Phil Collins.