She teaches Medical-Surgical Nursing courses. She received her Associate of Arts and Associate of Science in Nursing from Gulf Coast Community College more than twenty-five years ago and began her practice on a Medical-Surgical floor at a local hospital. This lead to an interest in the areas of Acute Care, Critical Care, Ambulatory Care, Perioperative Care, Gastroenterology and Clinical Instruction. Interest in the interplay between health and illness, renal failure, and diabetes mellitus, lead to more than a decade of Nephrology nursing.