She has been a staff nurses, Head Nurse (Director), Neonatal Nurse Clinician (Practitioner) in NICUs for over 45 years. She is a co-developer of the National Perinatal Association (NPA) Guidelines for Psychosocial Support of NICU Families and co-author of the articles published Dec 2015 in the Journal of Perinatology on the Psychosocial Support Guidelines. She presented these guidelines at Marce Perinatal Mental Health International Conference Sept 2016 Melbourne Australia, AWHONN (2017), Academy of Neonatal Nurses Advanced Practice Conference, April 2017, ANN Neonatal Intensive Care Conference Sept 2017 and National Association of Neonatal Nurses Conference Oct 2017, PLIDA conference Oct 2018. She also have extensive experience presenting a variety of topics on Perinatal topics at the International, National and State levels. Currently NICUs in 13 countries have implemented the tools which her facility has developed.
She has been a staff nurses, Head Nurse (Director)