Children's Health Nurse Residency Oct 2025

ank854 · Apr 10

caminandoyflotando said:

I did. I went to a job fair and one of the recruiters said it looked great.

I filled the template out with all of the information from my resume and I'm not sure how to condense it to one page.. I'm on the struggle bus with that one

caminandoyflotando · Apr 10

Don't worry too much about the submission template because they also ask you to upload an actual copy of your resume. I'm not sure why bother doing the template. My residency template had the last part of my resume going over to a second page too.

ank854 · Apr 10

caminandoyflotando said:

Don't worry too much about the submission template because they also ask you to upload an actual copy of your resume. I'm not sure why bother doing the template. My residency template had the last part of my resume going over to a second page too.

Oh perfect! Thank you so much for answering all the questions we have. It's so helpful.

caminandoyflotando · Apr 10

No problem! Childrens is very hard to get into unless you know someone or come from TCU as I've been told LOL not sure if it's true but it def checks out based on people I've known to get residency. I'm keeping my expectations realistic so that I'm not devastated if I don't get in for this round too LOL

ank854 · Apr 10

caminandoyflotando said:

No problem! Childrens is very hard to get into unless you know someone or come from TCU as I've been told LOL not sure if it's true but it def checks out based on people I've known to get residency. I'm keeping my expectations realistic so that I'm not devastated if I don't get in for this round too LOL

I've also heard that it is very hard! Wishing you the best of luck. I really hope we both get a spot. It's definitely my #1 choice.

abcdnursefg · Apr 11

Does anyone know any tips or have any advice for the application? Is the rec letter important?

caminandoyflotando · Apr 11

I met one of the recruiters at a job fair my school had. She said it's important to have one really good rec letter. My friend who worked in the CVICU there said it was important to get one from my pediatrics instructor. I reached out to her and she wrote me a good one since we had a good rapport. The recruiter also said to tweak my resume slighty in that hiring managers like to see metrics on resumes. For example I have previous ER experience so rather than just saying what my duties were "Take vital signs, Create orthopedic splints, Perform phlebotomy blah blah..." I edited to read "Managed multiple complex cases daily in a 200 bed ER seeing over 500 cases per day." "Provided care to a large and diverse patient population."

ank854 · Apr 11

Does the person writing the recommendation have to submit it to the application or do they send it to you and you submit it with the rest of your stuff? Also, what units are you guys applying to

caminandoyflotando · Apr 11

For Children's Dallas ? No you submit the letter on your own. If you're applying for Cook Children's in Ft Worth you need two separate rec letters and the person writing them has to submit them directly to the email provided. I don't know what will be available but anything that's open.

Anjali Raghavan · Apr 29

Has anyone heard back about an interview or is it still probably too early?

ank854 · Apr 29

Anjali Raghavan said:

Has anyone heard back about an interview or is it still probably too early?

On the application it said we won't hear anything until applications close which is Wednesday! Good luck!

caminandoyflotando · Apr 29

If it helps when I applied back in January I got a video screening form the day the applications closed on the 31st and was told if you were chosen for an in person interview it would be from Feb 17-19 so 2 weeks after applications closed. So interviews maybe will fall the week of May 18th- 24th. But that's just me guessing.