[2] Shaw did not hold the post for the 1899–1900 school year when she was made superintendent of nurses at the small Women's Charity Club Hospital in Boston.
[1] She went on to study a diploma in Teaching in Schools of Nursing (hospital economics) at Teachers College, Columbia University in New York City between 1904 and 1906.
[2][5] Shaw spent the following six-year recuperating from her illness in sanatoriums at both Saranac Lake, New York and Sainte-Agathe-des-Monts, Quebec.
[3] Following her travelling abroad, she became a volunteer social worker for the Canadian Patriotic Fund's Montreal branch when the First World War broke out in 1914.
[1] In 1922, Shaw was made president of the Association of Registered Nurses of the Province of Quebec (ARNPQ), a position which she held until 1926.
[2][5] Shaw was asked to preside over the 1925 International Council of Nurses meeting in Helsinki, Finland.
[1][3] Shaw helped to secure amendments in connection with the Registration Act for Nurses in Quebec.
[3] In May 1934, a memorial tablet of Shaw was unveiled by the Alumnae Association of the Montreal General Hospital for Nurses.