In 2001, she completed her nursing degree in Reading, Pennsylvania. She moved to Philadelphia to advance her nursing career and skills in the Cardiac Intensive Care unit at the University of Pennsylvania Presbyterian Hospital. She traveled to St. Louis where she had the opportunity to work at Barnes’ Jewish Hospital and Medical Center as a cardiac intensive care nurse. In 2004 she settled in Rockland County, New York where she continued to work as an ICU nurse and in the Post Anesthesia Care unit.