Attention HR workers or nurse recruiters!! Resume critique needed.

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Here is my enclosed resume and I would love your honest opinion about what my resume needs or doesn't need to get looked at and called for an interview. Are the titles listed in order? I was told that objectives are a waste of time so I didn't include one. Thank so much in advance. For those of you that aren't HR workers or nurse recruiters, thank you for stopping by and helping. Blessings.

Mrs Ellis

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Education

Andrews University, Berrien Springs, MI May 2012

  • Bachelor of Science in Nursing
  • Dean's List
  • GPA 3.4

Rio Hondo College, Whittier, CA May 2008

  • Associates Degree in Liberal Studies
  • GPA 3.2

Awards

Team Player of the Year Award: Andrews University Residence Hall 2010

Exceptional Desk Worker Award: Fall & Spring 2010

Restoration Award: Andrews University Department of Nursing, Spring 2012

Clinical Experience

Pediatrics Nov-Dec 2011

St. Joseph Regional Medical Center, South Bend, IN 40hrs

Postpartum/ Labor and Delivery Aug-Oct 2011

St. Joseph Regional Medical Center, South Bend, IN 56hrs

Telemetry Unit and rotations in ICU & ED Jan-Apr 2011

Lakeland Community Hospital, Niles, MI 64hrs

Renal/ Medical Surgical Unit and rotations in OR Aug 2010-Dec 2011

St. Joseph Regional Medical Center, South Bend, IN 64hrs

Psychiatric Mental Health Unit Jan-Apr 2010

Lakeland Regional Medical Center, St. Joseph, MI 63hrs

Rehabilitation Unit Aug-Dec 2009

St. Joseph Regional Medical Center, South Bend, IN 64hrs

Related Experience

Nurse Technician, Acute Inpatient Rehabilitation Unit Aug 2011-May 2012

Lakeland Regional Medical Center, St. Joseph, MI

Student School Nurse at School-based Clinics March 8- March 18, 2012

Mission Trip to Fort Peck Indian Reservation, Wolf Point, MT

Student Nurse Intern, Critical Care Unit Jan 2012-May 2012

Lakeland Regional Medical Center, St. Joseph, MI 120hrs

Student Nurse Intern, Medical Surgical & Global Robotic Institute Jun 2011-Aug 2011

Celebration Florida Hospital, Celebration, FL

H1N1 Vaccination Volunteer Nov 2009

Niles, MI and Berrien Springs, MI

Homecare Assistant/ Certified Nurse Assistant May 2008-Jul 2009

Huntington Homecare services, Pasadena, CA

Skills

Technical: Microsoft Office Suite & Trinity Health Power Chart

Languages: English, Spanish

Special Training: BCLS for Health Care (Expires July, 2013)

Other Experience

Religious Vice-President Aug 2011-May 2012

Andrews Student Nursing Association, Berrien Springs, MI

Student Dean, Resident Advisor & Desk Receptionist Aug 2009-May 2011

Andrews University Women's Residence Hall, Berrien Springs, MI

Spacing is your friend and so is general formatting.

Clinical Experience (Student)

St. Joseph Regional Medical Center

- Pediatrics Nov-Dec 2011,

- Postpartum/ Labor and Delivery Aug-Oct 2011

- Telemetry Unit and rotations in ICU & ED Jan-Apr 2011

- Renal/ Medical Surgical Unit and rotations in OR, 64hrs

- etc

That's how I would format your Clinical Experience, rather than big block of text that's very hard to read anyway. It all bleeds into each other, I can't even tell what hours are for what. Listing the exact wing of the hospital is irrelevant unless you're applying for St. Joseph itself or this is a nationally known specialty or whatever of the hospital.

Again

Work Experience

Lakeland Regional Medical Center, St. Joseph, MI

Nurse Technician, Acute Inpatient Rehabilitation Unit | Aug 2011-May 2012

- Saved lives because I was awesome, enter 1 sentence description of what you did.

Huntington Homecare services, Pasadena, CA

Homecare Assistant/ Certified Nurse Assistant May 2008-Jul 2009

- Went into peoples homes to save lives because I'm awesome, another 1 sentence description.

Good luck

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