Eileen has worked in many hospitals around the Territory after arriving in 1952 to join the Northern Territory Medical Service. She has nursed in all the wards of both Darwin and Katherine hospitals and was the first nursing sister appointed to Maningrida. She has been a senior nursing sister at Barunga, Belyuen, Lajamanu and Yuenduma remote locations around the Northern Territory. She was the first nursing sister appointed to full-time leprosy control field work in the Northern Territory She trained others in the field of nursing leprosy. Eileen was awarded membership in the general division of the Order of Australia (AM) for nursing in 1988.Nurs