I had worked in intensive cardiovascular care in RS Dr Cipto Mangunkusumo, Jakarta since 1971 for more than 14 years and had experience worked in critical care unit abroad in the middle of my study there. In Canterbury Hospital Sydney, my first patient was a young pilot, 32 years old with seriously ill due to HIV/AIds. Since then, both condition have made me always interested in caring those types of patients. Therefore, my field of research and community service are also involving problems in nursing of medical surgical areas, mostly in Cardiovascular nursing, HIV/Aids prevention for young generation specifically teen girls, Aids patients and their adherence to ARV, and off course, researches and community services in other area of medical surgical such as Critical are, stroke, renal failure or endocrine problems.

As a professor who focus on medical surgical nursing I have supervised many master, clinical nurse specialist, and doctorate students in those areas. In addition to assist students in exploring health problems to develop intervention or prevention models and new research instruments, I also supervise students who want to develop new intervention nursing devices in order to improve quality of care to the patients. For example, an early detection device for patient to identify level of blood sugar, to identify early sign of retinopathy diabetic complication, indicator of signs to detect recurrent stroke, and some software / application program to improve healthy lifestyle.