If you have had various nursing experience

[MHDNURSE]

How did you condense your resume into one page? I have been a nurse for 21 years and have been using a CV, rather than a resume because I cannot find a way to condense it all into one page. I know CVs really are more for academic positions.

While I am happy in my current position as a school nurse, I would like to get my CV updated to a resume and reflect my current school nurse position. I have eight different jobs listed under "experience" because some of them were at the same time (example I worked as a nurse manager AND saw patients as a NP at the same clinic). Do I just not describe what I did in those positions and instead just list the positions under bullets?

Would love some advice from those seasoned school nurses who also have extensive experiences in other clinical settings.

Thanks

[kummerspeck]

My resume is two pages, because I'm not about to leave off any pertinent experience. I figure that if that irritates a future potential employer, then so be it. One page resumes seemed to be more the norm when I was in college back in the late 90s. When I apply now, I even attach a cover letter, and then my two page resume. Unless they want size 8 font and half inch borders, they get two pages.

[Flare, ASN, BSN]

i think the taboo days of a 2 page resume are over now that people are varying their career experiences and not working for the same firm. I mean my college experiences take up a big chunk of the page alone - and i'm not about to leave those off. I figure that as long as it looks clean and isn't a novel, i'm good

[JenTheSchoolRN, BSN, RN]

I have a wealth of job experience prior to nursing that is actually relevant to school nursing (I worked in higher ed for several years, oddly enough where the CV is the norm).

I end up separating my job experiences into two categories: nursing experience (recent/current job first) and other relevant experience. I sometimes shuffle things based on the job I'm applying for. I put the nursing experience first and the other stuff does flow into a second page. Perhaps you can organize your job into similar categories? That way the meat grabs employers on the first page and they continue to read on.

[RatherBHiking, BSN, RN]

Most school based personnel doing interviewing and hiring are NOT going to be upset if your resume is 2 pages long. Any more than that makes you look like you're either job hopping or bragging but I think with 2 you're fine! Besides, they'd rather have someone with varied clinical experience I'd think!

[MHDNURSE]

Thanks everyone! I managed to convert my 3 full pages CV into a 2 full pages resume. I did cut out some stuff that I figured at this point wouldn't be the winning info to get me a job I have to admit, it is tough when you work your butt off all these years and do all these "relevant" activities and then just take them off like they never happened...but it is nice to have a resume now and I am kind of digging the new format.