She is a registered nurse with a MA Nursing degree in the field of Community Health Nursing obtained from the University of Potchefstroom, where after she went into private practice with wound care as main focus area since 1994. Due to the lack of formal wound related training opportunities in South Africa, she pursued international wound training for herself at the University of Wales College of Medicine (Cardiff-United Kingdom) where she studied under the care of Prof Keith Harding and obtained the Postgraduate Diploma in Wound Healing and Tissue Repair (Cum Laude) in 2000.