Registered Nurse Resume
1st pass of a resume I am making up for an application to a medical-surgical fellowship.
What I am most worried about is my work history. I think it's best to keep just my relevant work experience but I have to fill in the year gap before I received my nursing license. I have been a nurse for 3 years so I don't think including my school clinicals is relevant but a number of them were completed in the hospital system I am applying for the fellowship at.
Any and all recommendations would be appreciated.
Posted Nov 27, 2016, 12:51 AM UTC
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We don't use objectives any more. Use a summary instead. Yours starts "Registered Nurse with three years of skilled nursing experience seeks..." (which is like an objective, but we don't strictly focus on what we want).
You don't need bullets for your education.
You should add clinicals under experience, especially if they were at a facility where you are trying to get in. I might even suggest listing a reference from there if you have one. (I never suggest refs on resumes, but this is an exception)
I'm not sure how helpful the year of contracting experience is at this point.
You could also use a skills section. Things that you are able to do well in a nursing environment, as well as any technology you use.
I second all of this.
You need to add nursing-specific skills. Nursing is a vast field so be specific about what you've done and what you want to do.
Get rid of the contracting job. It's more distracting to include it than to just leave a gap. You could even remove your graduation date if you want to make the gap less obvious but I don't think it matters.