| 1961 - 1962 | General Duty Women's Medical/Surgical Nursing at the Mater Miseracordiae Hospital, Sydney |
| 1963 | General Duty Medical/Surgical Nursing at the Mater Miseracordiae Hospital, Sydney |
| 1963 | Special Duty Female Medical Patient at St Vincent's Hospital in Vancouver, Canada |
| 1966 - 1968 | Instructor in Gynaecology at Foothills Hospital in Calgary, Canada |
| 1966 - 1968 | Instructor in Maternity Nursing at Holy Cross Hospital in Calgary, Canada |
| 1969 - 1970 | Instructor in Maternal-Child/Nursing of Adults at Mt Royal College in Calgary, Canada |
| 1970 - 1971 | Graduate student at the University of California, USA |
| 1971 | World Health Fellowship for Graduate Study received |
| 1971 - 1976 | Assistant Professor of Maternity and Paediatric Nursing at the University of Calgary in Canada |
| 1975 - 1976 | Participant/Observer at the village Maternity Clinic in Lagos, Nigeria |
| 1978 - 1989 | Director of Nursing Project 2000 at Vancouver General Hospital, Canada |
| 1979 | World Health Fellowship three month study tour of maternal health services in Switzerland, Holland, Denmark, Sweden, Scotland and England |
| 1981 - 1985 | National Health and Research Development PhD Fellowship received for National Health and Welfare, Canada |
| 1981 - 1985 | Doctoral student at the University of California, USA |
| 1983 | Patricia Smith Christensen Memorial Scholarship received |
| 1985 - 1988 | Associate Professor (tenured) of Maternity and Paediatric Nursing at the University of Calgary in Canada |
| 1988 - 1996 | Professor/Assistant Dean of Research and Scholarly Development at the University of Calgary, Canada |
| 1992 | Annual Fellow at the Calgary Institute of Humanities in Canada |
| 1992 | Margaret Hart Distinguished Visitor in the Faculty of Nursing at the University of Manitoba in Canada |
| 1996 - | Chair of the Women's Health Nursing Professor (joint appointment) in the Faculty of Nursing at the University of Sydney and in the Centre for Women's Health Nursing at the Royal Hospital for Women, New South Wales |
| 1996 | Paul Harris Fellow for Rotary South Calgary, Canada |
| 1996 | Settled in Australia |
| 1997 - | Member of the Women's Health International Council |
| 1997 - | Fellow of the Royal College of Nursing, New South Wales |
| 1998 - | Member of the Amarant National Menopause Foundation |
| 1998 - | Member of the Association of Neonatal Nurses of Australia |
