Foreign educated nurse should i include clinical hospital name

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Hello everyone! I just passed the nclex last friday and am now starting to write my resume. I've been scrolling down and reading many of the posts concerning new grad rn resumes and cover letters, so I'm kinda getting the gist of it. From the research I've been doing, I noticed that many are simple stating the hospital where their clinical's were held and the specific departments and leaving out descriptions of their tasks. My question is since I graduated outside the country is it still necessary for me to specify the hospital where i had my clinical's? Or can I just place the different areas and the number of hours? Also I have no experience in the medical field but I did work for 3 years in the hospitality industry before moving out of the country to pursue my nursing degree full time. Should that even be included it has been four years since my last job. I do understand the importance of making sure that the resume is straight to the point and condensed so that only important highlights are specified. Any advice would be amazing. If there is someone out there in a similar situation and can present to me how they were able to create their new grad resume I would be extremely grateful. Thank you!

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Specializes in Medical and general practice now LTC.

I listed hospitals in my resume and I am a IEN so I would suggest you do include names

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Oh ok thank you so much!

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Specializes in HH, Peds, Rehab, Clinical.

If you research other threads on this topic, it seems that clinical time is NOT listed on a resume as experience. It's expected that you've had clinical time as part of your nursing education and aren't something you'd count as true experience. Just what I've read here

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If you research other threads on this topic, it seems that clinical time is NOT listed on a resume as experience. It's expected that you've had clinical time as part of your nursing education and aren't something you'd count as true experience. Just what I've read here

I see so should I just include my hospitality experience? Im just worried that since its been 4 years it would be considered out of date.

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Specializes in L&D, infusion, urology.

I would still include your old job to show some work history. Try to relate what you can to nursing.

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