Nancy Cannada
Elgin,SC
Summary
Dedicated Registered Nurse with 37 years of extensive experience across diverse healthcare settings, committed to fostering the growth and development of future nursing professionals. Passionate about sharing valuable knowledge and insights, with a strong desire to create impactful educational programs and mentorship opportunities. Aiming to inspire and guide the next generation of nurses through innovative teaching methods and hands-on training, ensuring preparedness for the challenges of the profession. Highly skilled Labor and Delivery Nurse with 18 years of experience, adept at providing individualized care and family education while striving to make labor and delivery as painless and efficient as possible for mothers, babies, and healthcare providers.
Overview
36
36
years of professional experience
Work History
ECPI University
07.2025 - Current
- Clinical Facility didactic and clinicals for Obstetrics and Pediatrics semester. Responsibilities included well baby, Labor and delivery, Post partum teaching. Worked with the Pediatrician in care of the newborns. Students were taught baby and mother assessments. Also became INACSL certified to teach high fidelity SIMS with the students.
ECPI University
03.2024 - Current
- Clinical Facility for Obstetrics and Pediatrics semester. Responsibilities included well baby, Labor and delivery, Post partum teaching. Worked with the Pediatrician in care of the newborns. Students were taught baby assessments for routine and Neonatal Abstinence syndrome.
Southeastern College
01.2025 - 08.2025
- Responsibilities include Didactic, Lab and Clinical for Obstetrics and Pediatrics.
Nurse- Family Partnership
08.2016 - 08.2022
- Responsible for Nurse Home Visiting from Pregnancy Until Child is two years old. Caseload of 25 up to 30 Clients.
- Responsibilities included: assessment of mother and child, administering ASQ & ASQ:SE2, parent child observations, linking client to services, life coach, development of detailed care plans, outreach and presentations to community partners, health and child development, education, maintenance of data base for HRSA participation in a research program with Harvard University, certification of program with Children’s Trust of SC, PDSA ramps and Quality improvement projects for Children’s Trust dictated by HRSA.
Kershaw Health
03.2016 - 02.2017
- Labor and Delivery 30 deliveries a month
Labor & Delivery
Spartanburg Regional Medical Center
05.1999 - 10.2015
- Registered nurse in an 11 bed Labor and Delivery and high-risk antepartum unit.
- Experience includes assisting Physician in delivery of term and preterm infants
- Circulating nurse in operating room, assisting surgical techs in counting instruments and care of baby immediately after delivery
- Care of patient in recovery room initiating breastfeeding of baby monitoring vital signs, and incision & Foley care and pain management
- Triage of pregnant patients assessing signs and symptoms of preterm and term labor, and reporting those findings to the Physician for treatment of patient.
- Management of pre term, multiple gestation and magnesium sulfate therapy to prevent pre- term delivery
- Management of fetal demise patients assisting with delivery complications and recovery as well as assisting the patient in the grieving process and preparing the baby for viewing by the family. Became the Perinatal Bereavement Coordinator.
- I have participated in the coordination of the Walk to Remember for families who have experienced perinatal loss. I have developed a resource book for the staff to refer to concerning the demise and perinatal hospice process.
- I participated in the Pride Nurse program helping with community and Hospital sponsored health programs.
- I participated in a pre term labor research project.
Gardner- Webb University Nursing Clinical Instructor
09.2009 - 12.2009
- Clinical hours in Labor and Delivery and Mother Baby units
Mother Baby floor 5 Tower
03.1995 - 05.1999
- Rotating charge nurse of 28 bed unit Responsibilities included coordination of assignments management of stable preterm obstetrical patients monitoring for labor and infection, Baby assessments.
- Care of mothers after delivery taking vital signs, looking for signs of infection and bleeding, assisting in breastfeeding teaching baby care and discharge care for mother and baby
- Well baby experience assisting Physicians with circumcisions, routine care of babies bath, cord care, vital signs, checking for jaundice and initiating bill lights, occasional drawing blood, PKU test.
- Complicated and uncomplicated hysterectomy and GYN cancer patients- responsibilities included vital signs, changing dressing, emptying drains, central venous monitoring to check the hearts efficiency, monitoring intake and output to prevent dehydration and monitoring and trying to prevent complications of surgery- infection, bleeding, pneumonia, blood clots.
- I participated in the educational committee that scheduled quarterly education classes and founded the patient satisfaction committee.
Medical surgical unit with focus on Woman’s Services
12.1989 - 03.1995
- Rotating/ Permanent charge nurse of 17-bed unit, which specialized in management of care of hysterectomy patients, pelvic inflammatory disease, plastic surgery, and other various general surgeries. I was responsible for assessments and care of all 17 patients while the LPN did vital signs, medicines, treatments, and treatments. We floated to Pediatrics and NICU when there was low census.
Education
Bachelors of Science - Nursing
Gardner- Webb University
Boiling Springs, NC05-2001
Associate Degree - Nursing
Greenville Technical College
Greenville, SC11-1989
Skills
- Government relations liaison
- INACL credentialed professional
- Infant massage training specialist
- Proficient in basic life support techniques
Accomplishments
In my current position, I revamped the SIMS Instructor packets. This streamlined the SIMS process for all instructors. I also collaborated with IT and the ADN Sims instructor to create a low-cost Pyxis option to add a more realistic medication administration for our students.
Timeline
ECPI University
07.2025 - Current
Southeastern College
01.2025 - 08.2025
ECPI University
03.2024 - Current
Nurse- Family Partnership
08.2016 - 08.2022
Kershaw Health
03.2016 - 02.2017
Gardner- Webb University Nursing Clinical Instructor
09.2009 - 12.2009
Labor & Delivery
Spartanburg Regional Medical Center
05.1999 - 10.2015
Mother Baby floor 5 Tower
03.1995 - 05.1999
Medical surgical unit with focus on Woman’s Services
12.1989 - 03.1995
Associate Degree - Nursing
Greenville Technical College
Bachelors of Science - Nursing
Gardner- Webb University