Liz Nutter, DNP, CNM, FACNM

  1. Directory
  2. People directory
  3. Liz Nutter, DNP, CNM, FACNM
Photo of Liz Nutter

Assistant Professor of Nursing

Background

Liz Nutter served in the United States Army and retired in 2021 as a Lieutenant Colonel. She is a proven nursing leader with more than 20 of nursing and healthcare leadership experience. She is a board-certified Nurse Midwife and is recognized as a national expert in waterbirth and hydrotherapy evidence-based practice. She was the Director of the United States Army’s Obstetrics and Gynecology Post-bachelorette Nursing Program from 2014-2017. Her last military assignment was at Madigan Army Medical Center where she served as the Chief Midwife. 

She graduated from University of Portland with a BSN in 2001, an MSN from Radford University with a certificate in Midwifery from Shenandoah University in 2009. She earned her Doctor of Nursing Practice degree at Frontier Nursing University in 2014. She was named a fellow in the American College of Nurse Midwives in 2020 and was the United States Army Surgeon Generals Consultant for Women’s Health Nursing from 2017-2020.

Books

  • Nutter, E. (2024). Sexually Transmitted Diseases. In Woo, TM & Wright, W. Pharmacotherapeutics for Advanced Practice Nurse Prescribers 6th Ed. FA Davis: Philadelphia, PA.
  • Nutter, E. (2024). Women as Patients. In Woo, TM & Wright, W. Pharmacotherapeutics for Advanced Practice Nurse Prescribers 6th Ed. FA Davis: Philadelphia, PA.
  • Nutter, E. (2018). Support for women during labor.  In R. King., M. Brucker., K. Osborne., & C. Jevitt (Eds.), Varney’s midwifery (pp. 51-985).  Jones & Bartlett Learning.
  • Nutter, E., Shaw-Batisita, J.  (2016). The midwife as catalyst: Promoting institutional change and hydrotherapy to facilitate physiological childbirth. In B. Anderson & S. Stone (Eds.), Best practice in midwifery: Using the evidence to implement change (pp. 429-446). Springer.
  • Nutter, E.  (2016). Decreasing vulnerability in birth: Waterbirth in military treatment facilities. In M. DeChesnay, & B. Anderson (Eds.), Caring for the vulnerable, (pp.253-262). Jones and Bartlett.

Publications

  • Kane-Lowe, L., & Nutter, E.  (Eds).  (2017).  A Model Practice Template for Hydrotherapy in Labor and Birth.  Journal of Midwifery and Women’s Health, 62(1):120-126.  doi” 10.111/jmwh.12587
  • Munroe, M., & Nutter, E. (2016). Hydrotherapy during the First Stage of Labor. Army Medical Command Policy Memo 16-004.
  • Nutter, E. Meyer S., Shaw-Battista J., Marowitz A. (2014). Waterbirth: An Integrative Analysis of Peer-Reviewed Literature.  Journal of Midwifery and Women’s Health, 59(3): 286-319. doi:10.111/jmwh.12194
  • Nutter, E., Shaw-Battista J., Marowitz A. (2014). Waterbirth Fundamentals for Clinicians. Journal of Midwifery & Women's Health, 59(3), 350-354. doi:10.111/jmwh.12193
  • Nutter, E.  (2013).  Hydrotherapy and childbirth: An evidence-based protocol to guide waterbirth in Army hospitals. [Doctoral capstone, Frontier Nursing University]. Frontier Campus Repository. https://frontier.contentdm.oclc.org/digital/collection/dc/id/105/rec/1

Recognition

  • Fellow American College of Nurse-Midwives 2020
  • Order of Military Medical Merit United States Army 2019
  • US Army Surgeon General 9A Designator 2019
  • Kitty Ernst Award American College of Nurse Midwives 2016
  • Evangeline G. Bovard Award 2013
  • DAISY Nursing Excellence Award 2012