She worked as Superintendent of Nursing at a hospital in Jacksonville, Florida, 1887; Director, Girls Department, House of Refuge, Randall’s Island, New York, 1900-02; Director, and President, American Journal of Nursing, 1909-12.
She went to France during World War I and died at the Saveny Base Hospital in that country on April 15, 1919.
Following the Armistice in November 1918, she went to Europe to make a tour of inspection and to attend an international nursing conference. Exhausted as she was by years of hard work she nonetheless set about, immediately upon her arrival in France, to make visits to the hospitals where American nurses were serving. In the severe weather of January 1919 she became ill with an ear infection. Later, several mastoid operations were performed, but her condition steadily worsened and she died on April 15, 1919. Her last words were, "I must get back to my work."
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She went to France during World War I and died at the Saveny Base Hospital in that country on April 15, 1919.