[2] She took her midwifery training at the Radcliffe Infirmary, Oxford, then returned to St Thomas' Hospital as a ward nursing sister.
[3] When war broke out in 1939 Turner joined the Queen Alexandra's Imperial Military Nursing Service (QARANC), was mobilised at Congleton.
[7] On her return to civilian life she took up post as administrative sister at St Thomas' Hospital before her appointment as matron of Liverpool's Royal Infirmary in 1948.
[1] Turner left in 1953 to care for her elderly parents and took up post of Principal of the Royal College of Nursing's Education Centre in Birmingham.
[5] Turner was appointed matron of St Thomas' Hospital and superintendent of the Florence Nightingale School of Nursing in 1955.