[2] Sills developed the graduate level clinical nurse specialist program in psychiatry at OSU.
[2] She was Chair of the Department of Family and Community Nursing and Director of Graduate Studies.
[2] Sills worked to achieve salary equality for the nursing facility with other disciplines at OSU.
[1] In 1995 Sills co-founded the Journal of the American Psychiatric Nurses Association (JAPNA) with Nikki Polis and was the first editor.
She was elected to the American Academy of Nursing in 1976 and served two terms on its Governing Council.