Resume Help for a LTC Nurse

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If you have worked LTC all those years you have the ability to sense when a patient is declining, so you have exceptional assessment skills, charge nurse capabilities. Don't forget your various motivational tactics that always work to your advantage with family and residents.Tell them your overall approach with staff always seem to end in a desired outcome. What you have learned from LTC is the number one thing you need in med /surg ORGANIZATION- the rest are task such as IV's-TPN etc: these are things you can learn. Good Luck!

As a LTC nurse, you also have years of built-in supervisory experience (those CNAs and CMAs, if applicable) and your nursing judgement is really tested at times, since you are often alone in LTC without the benefit of more senior nurses, and most of your interactions with physicians are brief telephone encounters. LTC is not as fast paced as med-surg, but that only means it presents different challenges. Tell them what you brought to the facilities and how the skills you have learned from 13 years of LTC can be brought to bear in a hospital. I'm another long-time veteran of LTC and have faced similar frustrations when I just got to where I could not bear to do LTC anymore.

Have you worked on a rehab or sub acute floor? The hospital here has what they call a bridge program. They hire nurses from SNFs to work med surg and give 'em a nice long orientation. Of all the people I know who've applied however, only those nurses with sub acute or rehab experience were hired.
Good luck.