Keden achieved a Bachelor of Nursing at Charles Sturt University, Wagga campus. Since then, she has gained clinical expertise across the public and private sectors in the areas of intensive/critical and coronary care nursing. She also has a wide range of quality experience in the specialty areas of paediatrics, aged care, haemodialysis, palliative care, bariatrics, angiography, medical imaging, leadership, management and international health. She has enjoyed working with sparse and limited resources as well as state of the art technologies and facilities.

Keden has also achieved a Master of Clinical Nursing (CritCare), Advanced Certificate in Nutrition and Diet, Graduate Diploma in Management and is in the final stages of achieving a Master of Business Administration. Keden works on the National Safety and Quality Health Service Accreditation Standards in the private sector and has a strong interest in the area of clinical governance, change management and evidence based practice and looks forward to embarking on the PhD journey in this area very soon.