[3] She moved to Guy's Hospital where she was awarded a teacher's certificate at the Chartered Society of Physiotherapy in 1943.
[3] During World War II Nuttall was evacuated from London to the Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh for a few months.
[3] In 1951 Nuttall began her training at the Florence Nightingale Faculty of Nursing and Midwifery of St Thomas' Hospital London.
[3][4] In 1958 she wrote an insightful article Ink on My Fingers describing her role as a pioneering female-nurse-editor in The Nightingale Fellowship Journal.
[4] While Editor, Nuttall made significant changes, such as publishing articles not just by doctors but by nurses, and encouraging specialist research though the occasional papers series which she introduced.
In 1973 she was noted as being a Council member of the Royal College of Nursing and of St Christopher's Hospice.
In 1976 she took up the Nursing Officer position for the British Red Cross London branch.