Mrs. Pitts trained in the United Kingdom (U.K.) at Oldchurch Hospital, Romford, Essex, as a Registered General Nurse in 1987. She then went onto work as a staff nurse in a combined, medical unit of coronary care and intensive care in Milton Keynes in England.
She then moved into community nursing and became a family practice nursing sister, specialising in asthma and coronary care. After qualifying as teacher she then became a Lecturer/Practitioner in Practice Nursing at Oxford Brookes University and subsequently took up the position of a Health Care Service Manager at Cranfield University, Bedfordshire in the U.K. Her role included overseeing health and safety management for the evacuation trials on the newly launched Airbus A380. She also gained recognition/grant from the British Heart Foundation to run CPR courses for laypersons, which she did for five (5) years.
Mrs Pitts moved to Barbados in 2002 where she volunteered for the Heart & Stroke Foundation, and became ECC Project Co-ordinator. Her professional career in Barbados began as a tutor at the Barbados Community College, teaching and co-ordinating student nurses. She also formulated and the co-ordinated the curriculum for the first ever Paramedic Course in the Caribbean. In 2004, Mrs Pitts became the Executive Secretary to the National Resuscitation Council of Barbados.
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