[3] From 1947 to 1948, Stephenson held a Florence Nightingale Scholarship for the study of public health administration at the University of Toronto.
[3] After leaving the Red Cross, she assumed the position of County Nursing Officer for East Suffolk in 1948; this was at the very beginnings of the NHS.
[2] Gladys Beaumont Carter who had both an academic and nursing background had done the research that led to the creation of the unit but she had become ill that year.
[7] In her post as Director, Stephenson oversaw a new training scheme that expected students to graduate in an arts or humanities discipline before taking their nursing qualification.
[8] In 1964 a degree programme in Nursing was established, as well as a school for overseas students, which was supported by the World Health Organization.
[4] Stephenson supervised nursing students including Annie Altschul (co-supervised with Henry Walton), whose MSc thesis was completed in 1967, and her influence was acknowledged by Audrey John.