[31] She led the efforts of introducing in medical colleges of Armenia the new educational program for “Pharmaceutics” discipline that attracted substantial attention of the professional pedagogical community.
[33] She considered "two fundamental elements – schools and civil society – to be major topics needing attention to encourage nurse education system".
[34][35] During the First Nagorno-Karabakh War for the first time in Armenia the trade union she headed decided to direct all membership fees to the mutual aid fund[36][37] to honour those who served and to raise money for the College's veteran students and their families.
[51] The most natural photo-portrait of Rima Khachatryan was made by Soviet Armenian photographer Armenak Hovhannisyan in his private studio in 1982, which later appeared on the cover of her book “Untold Story” published by the NewMag.
[52] In 2012 the portrait of Rima Khachatryan in a traditional guise of the Armenian mother with an icon of the Virgin and the Child in her hands was painted by Zurab Modebadze[53] [54] (Tempera).
In 2020 the sculpture "On a Step Above Heaven" by David Minasyan (Դավիթ Մինասյան) was placed on the Nork Hills in Yerevan, Armenia(Marble), and Ricardo Sanz (pintor) produced her portrait from photographs of different years (Canvas).