A believer in continuing education she went on to gain a Diploma in Nursing from the University of London in 1936, received the Central Midwives' Board for Scotland midwife teachers' qualification in 1939, and in 1946, was registered as a Sister Tutor by the General Nursing Council for Scotland.
[2][3][4] After qualifying as a nurse, she went to work at the Kent and Canterbury Hospital before returning to Scotland to take up the position of assistant matron at the Simpson Memorial Maternity Pavilion in Edinburgh.
She was appointed matron at the hospital, making her, at that time, the youngest woman in Scotland to hold such a position.
She was a member of the Western Region Hospitals Board and helped establish the Marie Curie Centre at Hunters Hill, chairing its house committee.
From 1961 to 1968 she was president of Bearsden Red Cross, from 1968 to 1971 chair of the board of governors of Queens College, and a director of Balmanno Homes adult care centres.