Catherine trained in Glasgow and qualified in 1985. She has worked within a variety of critical care settings since 1987 and was a Consultant Nurse in Critical Care until 2017. She then worked as a Consultant Nurse in Acute Care until 2021 in the South East of England. Catherine has presented at many conferences (nationally and internationally), has published numerous papers in peer reviewed journals and she has been a member of the Scientific Committee for the British Association of Critical Care Nurses (BACCN) conference since 2013. Catherine is a peer reviewer for numerous journals, including Nursing Times, Nursing in Critical Care and Intensive and Critical Care Nursing (stopped in March 2024), and she is on the Editorial Board for Nursing in Critical Care having stepped down from Intensive and Critical Care Nursing in March 2024. Catherine was on the National Board of the British Association of Critical Care Nurses as a Professional Advisor until September 2023. She took early retirement at the start of 2021 and has worked at a vaccination centre and within a virtual ward team in Staffordshire since January 2021. Catherine has a BACCN Honorary Fellowship and joined ICUSteps in 2023 as a volunteer.