From telemetry to OB. How?

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Specializes in Telemetry, OB, NICU.

hey all,

i am a rn who has been working at a surgical telemetry floor for a year.

it's my first and only job after nursing school. i wanted to start in telemetry on purpose after school to get the basics in nursing. despite the valuable experience i have been gaining, i have grown to really really dislike it. my stress level is maxed out at work, and i am miserable about it. :confused: my heart has always been in ob, ever since nursing school. i fell in love with it when i had my nursing school clinicals there. :heartbeat i love l&d, postpartum, nursery all, but i am more towards mother-baby, postpartum, and well baby nursery.

i have been applying internally to my hospital's ob, but no luck so far. in my hospital, it takes so many tries to get in ob anyway.

anyway, i know a resume can significantly contribute to being hired, so i want to change my resume. i know ob/nursery and telemetry really aren't close, but i want to play with words a little bit and make my experience a little more useful to increase my chance of being hired. i know it would be way easier to make my resume appealing if i was to apply icu, er, or any other settings. i have learned a lot in my area; i have dealt with a lot of emergency situations and all; and i am still learning. but what does it have to do with ob? what kind of statements could i put on my resume that will make me a little better candidate about these positions? it is not only what i do in telemetry, but i would like to give clues about my learning abilities, adaptation, intelligence, characteristics, enthusiasm for the position, etc that would help me get hired with no ob experience. i am just trying to make a relation. shew, it is hard. :icon_roll

so, hiring managers, experienced nurses, and everybody else, please share your opinions. thank you for reading! :nurse:

Well since you take care of patients after surgery, you could play up on that, since you would be taking care of post c section patients. There's really not a lot of difference in surgical patients (except for the sections you check lady partsl bleeding of course). There is also tons of teaching in mother/baby nursing. I spend a majority of my time teaching new moms. So maybe you could play up on educating patients.

Specializes in Telemetry, OB, NICU.
Well since you take care of patients after surgery, you could play up on that, since you would be taking care of post c section patients. There's really not a lot of difference in surgical patients (except for the sections you check lady partsl bleeding of course). There is also tons of teaching in mother/baby nursing. I spend a majority of my time teaching new moms. So maybe you could play up on educating patients.

Awesome ideas! Teaching and post-surgical. Will definitely use this on my resume!

Please keep them coming!

Specializes in OB (with a history of cardiac).

Ironically I just accepted a postion in OB- and I have for the last year worked in Cardiac/Tele. I guess what I did in my resume is highlight the skills I had that would be an asset to OB that also work for tele: assessing and caring for patients who are critically ill, or who are unstable, caring for post surgical patients, providing ongoing education to patients from all learning levels and cultures. Play up on your ability to efficently multitask, prioritize, and collaborate with a multidisciplinary team. Are you interested in becoming a lactation nurse? Start looking into it and share that. In your cover letter, make clear your passion for the field, why is it your passion?

For me, it was a little unique in that I have an LPN background in peds, working in a clinic with many of the docs and NP's who round at the nursery. So for me, admittedly there was some well placed name dropping (and the docs were fine with it, they were my references, actually). I delivered both my children at this hospital, and so I was already familiar with some of the practices on the unit too.

Just be creative- but honest (don't fabricate stuff, I mean..play up, yes, fabricate- no).

Specializes in Telemetry, OB, NICU.
Ironically I just accepted a postion in OB- and I have for the last year worked in Cardiac/Tele. I guess what I did in my resume is highlight the skills I had that would be an asset to OB that also work for tele: assessing and caring for patients who are critically ill, or who are unstable, caring for post surgical patients, providing ongoing education to patients from all learning levels and cultures. Play up on your ability to efficently multitask, prioritize, and collaborate with a multidisciplinary team. Are you interested in becoming a lactation nurse? Start looking into it and share that. In your cover letter, make clear your passion for the field, why is it your passion?

For me, it was a little unique in that I have an LPN background in peds, working in a clinic with many of the docs and NP's who round at the nursery. So for me, admittedly there was some well placed name dropping (and the docs were fine with it, they were my references, actually). I delivered both my children at this hospital, and so I was already familiar with some of the practices on the unit too.

Just be creative- but honest (don't fabricate stuff, I mean..play up, yes, fabricate- no).

Thank you so much for the ideas. Yes, I want to be honest. But I don't really specifically state the skills I use and things I do at my resume. So, I opened this topic to see which skills I could specifically list to help me for this field. I loved your points and will use them! Thank you!!

if you're interested in pursuing high-risk ob, or if they have those come thru l&d sometimes, your experience with arhythmias and more "stuff" than the average nurse will be useful.

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