Dr Byrne has varied nursing experience including management, clinical and teaching, with specialties in emergency nursing, child and family health, and rural/remote nursing. She has been a Director of Nursing at a remote facility in south west Queensland where she was responsible for the provision of services, resource allocation, human resource management and community liaison (among many other responsibilities). Dr Byrne has previously held Nursing Director position in rural/remote health services with portfolio responsibilities in clinical excellence, person-centred care and research. 

Dr Byrne's research expertise is in qualitative design, critical discourse analysis, and mixed methods projects. Dr Byrne's research experience has included work with Nurse Navigators, rural workforce pathways, First Nations healthcare workers and women in prison. Dr Byrne has taught at CQUniversity for four years, and prior to this had education responsibilities in Queensland Health. Her teaching area of expertise is broad including all undergraduate areas, post graduate clinical teaching, health assessment and physical examination, teaching and learning, and the leadership and mentoring of teaching staff. 

2018-2022- CQUniversity 

Annie M. Sage Memorial Scholarship- Australian College of Nursing 

International Consortium of Occupational resilience (ICOR)

Australian College of Nursing (ACN)

Association of Queensland Nurse and Midwifery Leaders (AQNML)

Queensland Nurse and Midwives Union (QNMU)