Combining clinical nursing practice with nursing education and leadership responsibilities, she has built extensive experience in orthopedic and medical-surgical nursing care within hospital and academic settings. Her background includes postoperative orthopedic recovery, patient monitoring, pain management, wound care, mobility assistance, discharge planning, and inpatient nursing care involving orthopedic, neurosurgical, and medical-surgical patients. She has also provided consultations in healthcare-related legal matters involving nursing care and standards of practice.

Throughout her clinical career, she served in multiple nursing leadership, education, and supervisory capacities within orthopedic, neurosurgical, and medical-surgical hospital units. Her responsibilities included supervising daily unit operations, mentoring nursing staff, coordinating orientation programs, developing orthopedic education courses, and overseeing continuing nursing education activities. She additionally worked alongside physicians and multidisciplinary care teams to support patient treatment, postoperative recovery, and clinical care coordination.

Alongside her hospital experience, she has held faculty appointments in nursing education, teaching medical-surgical nursing, leadership, evidence-based practice, and orthopedic-related concepts. She is certified as both a Medical-Surgical Registered Nurse and an Orthopedic Nurse Certified professional and has participated in professional review and educational activities involving orthopedic nursing publications, continuing education content, recertification review programs, and textbook chapter review related to musculoskeletal nursing care. Her professional affiliations include the American Nurses Association, the Louisiana State Nurses Association, the National Association of Orthopedic Nurses, the National League for Nursing, and the Sigma Theta Tau International Nursing Honor Society.