I'm beginning to wonder if my newly made resume is the problem. I am getting no calls after submitted my resume everywhere. And I have no one to review my resume at this time so I thought I would give you folks a try. Tell me what you think....Mr. Poor Nurse2627 Bummed Out Ave Nowhere, NE 12345 (895)867- 5309Iwccguy31@yahoo.comMy goal is to obtain a position as a registered nurse in a hospital setting.EDUCATION Associates Degree Nursing; May 2012, Iowa Western Community College, Council Bluffs, IowaPractical Nursing; March 2008, Kaplan University, Omaha, NE Associates Degree Professional Studies; August 2000, Metropolitan Community College, Omaha, NEAssociates Degree Networking Technologies; August 1999, Metropolitan Community College, Omaha, NE EXPERIENCE Via Christe Assisted Living, NE; January 2011-Present Licensed Practical Nurse - Charge NurseAssisted Living and Memory Care UnitsFunctioning as charge nurse in a 60 bed facility. Providing high-quality care for up to 20 patients at a time. Duties include by mouth, subcutaneous, intramuscular, and nebulized medication administration, ostomy maintenance, wound care, assessments, resolving patient status changes, and assistance with ADLs. Charge nurse duties include acting as a supervisor and resource for 1-2 RNs/2-3 LPNs and 3-4 MAs/CNAs, delegation of assignments, staffing, facility maintenance, coordinating outpatient appointments, and communicating changes in the plan of care with patients, doctors, and family.Nebraska Skilled and Rehab, NE; July 2008-January 2011 Licensed Practical Nurse - Charge NurseLong Term Care and Skilled Care UnitsFunctioned as charge nurse in a 3 unit facility. Providing high-quality care for 20 to 50 patients at a time. Duties included by mouth, subcutaneous, intramuscular, and nebulized medication administration, ostomy maintenance, wound care, foley catheter insertion and care, tracheostomy cares, patient assessments, resolving patient status changes, and assistance with ADLs. Charge nurse duties include acting as a supervisor and resource for 1-2 RNs/1-2 LPNs and 3-6 MAs/CNAs, delegation of assignments, staffing, coordinating outpatient appointments, and communicating changes in the plan of care with patients, doctors, and family.Odyssey Healthcare, NE; April 2008-July 2008 Licensed Practical Nurse - Crisis CareFunctioned as a Crisis Care nurse for a variety of hospice patients. Provided high-quality cares for individual patients. Duties included by mouth, rectal, nebulized medication administration, wound care, and assistance with ADLs, including end of life cares. Other duties included various forms of documentation and communication specifically related to hospice care, patient and family support with the grieving process, patient assessment and monitoring of status changes.Marquis Place Assisted Living, NE; October 2006-March 2008 Certified Nursing AssistantAssisted Living and Memory Care UnitsFunctioned as a certified nursing assistant in a 45 bed facility. Providing high-quality care for up to 45 patients at a time. Duties included assistance with ADLs and coordination of care between staff and patients. Memorial Community Hospital, NE; October 2007-March 2008 Clinical Externship - ER SettingFunctioned as a student nurse in an emergency room setting. Providing high quality care under the direction of a registered nurse for 1-4 patients at a time. Duties included by mouth, subcutaneous, intramuscular medication administration, assistance with ADLs, triaging and vital signs, documentation, and collection of specimens, communication between staff, patients, and physicians. COMPUTER SKILLS Proficient with Microsoft Word, Excel, and PowerPoint, Internet, and Windows.ACCOMPLISHMENTSCapstone ProjectThis project consisted of overall client care during a 5 day hospital stay based on a case scenario. A multidisciplinary approach was used for the project, providing all aspects of client care.
Jennie.K 154 Posts Jul 27, 2012 It is really wordy... The career coach at my school told me to think of your resume as an outline for your interview. You can talk about your experience in the interview. The person looking over your resume will spend about 30 seconds glancing over the page. Do you have any other accomplishments? For example: high GPA, scholarship, honor rolls, awards. You also may want a stronger objective or no objective. Some people think an objective is a useless waste of space. It is basically saying, I'm giving you my resume bc I want you to hire me... Obviously Also, try using an outline instead of putting stuff in bold. You only bold things that are really impressive. For example: my GPA is a 4.0. I would bold that bc not everyone has a perfect GPA. Basically, you want it to be super easy to read at a glance... No complete sentences, you want bullets
meanmaryjean, DNP, RN 7,899 Posts Specializes in NICU, ICU, PICU, Academia. Has 46 years experience. Jul 27, 2012 My initial response is that it is VERY wordy. Rather than repeatedly describing the tasks you performed (which anyone in that position would be expected to perform) I would focus on BRIEFLY summarizing the patient populations you served.A good, readable resume should fit on one page using 1" margins and 12 pt type.Also, are you also applying for positions as well as submitting resumes? Are you as wordy on your applications? I might also leave off the unrelated to healthcare associate degrees - they are not pertinent to what you are looking for. You might also refine your goal. How about something like 'transition to RN role in an inpatient setting by building upon my existing LPN skills'? Good luck - I was an LPN many, many years ago (1970s), have since earned my AAS, BSN and MSN just two months ago!
trolloc6340 25 Posts Jul 27, 2012 Ok so its too long, could you give me an example on making it shorter?
meanmaryjean, DNP, RN 7,899 Posts Specializes in NICU, ICU, PICU, Academia. Has 46 years experience. Jul 27, 2012 Most resumes do not contain complete sentences. A bulleted list of three or four pertinent, concise points is miles better than a paragraph. For example:*Charge nurse for 40 skilled nursing patients*Supervised team of UAPs and clerical workers*Coordination of care with physicians and allied health consultants
trolloc6340 25 Posts Jul 27, 2012 Alright so I cut the fat out of my resume, and gave a very basic outline. I hope this is not too vague. I want them to think I have done things without being so generic. My resume is now 1 and 1/3 pages, the computer skills got cut off to the next page.Mr. Poor Nurse2627 Bummed Out Ave Nowhere, NE 12345 (895)867- 5309Iwccguy31@yahoo.comMy goal is to transition to an RN role in an inpatient setting by building upon my existing LPN skills.EDUCATION Associates Degree Nursing; May 2012, Iowa Western Community College, Council Bluffs, IowaPractical Nursing; March 2008, Kaplan University, Omaha, NE EXPERIENCE Via Christe Assisted Living, NE; January 2011-Present Licensed Practical Nurse – Charge NurseCharge Nurse for Assisted Living/Memory Care Units – 60 bed facilityMedication administration, wound care, assessments, supervisory and delegationStaffing, facility maintenance, coordination of care with staff and physicians Nebraska Skilled and Rehab, NE; July 2008-January 2011 Licensed Practical Nurse – Charge NurseLong Term and Skilled Care units – 3 unit facilityMedication administration, wound care, various catheter cares, assessmentsStaffing, delegation, coordination of caresOdyssey Healthcare, NE; April 2008-July 2008 Licensed Practical Nurse – Crisis CareCrisis Care for hospice patientsMedication administration, assessments, wound careDocumentation and coordination of patient careMarquis Place Assisted Living, NE; October 2006-March 2008 Certified Nursing AssistantAssisted Living and Memory Care units – on a 45 bed facilityADL’s, coordination of care, documentationMemorial Community Hospital, NE; October 2007-March 2008 Clinical Externship – ER SettingStudent Nurse under RN directionMedication administration, assessments and triage, documentation, communicationSpecimen collection and ADL assistanceCOMPUTER SKILLS Proficient with Microsoft Word, Excel, and PowerPoint, Internet, and Windows.ACCOMPLISHMENTSCapstone ProjectThis project consisted of overall client care during a 5 day hospital stay based on a case scenario. A multidisciplinary approach was used for the project, providing all aspects of client care.
Dafabb, LPN 121 Posts Specializes in Med/Surg/. Has 47 years experience. Jul 27, 2012 Ok if you would like to contact me I will give you a sample of my resume.....Yours is like mine was. For 30+ yrs I used mine but finally got called on it by a recruiting outfit and how the employees really want to see it. I am a horrible resume writer so I finally had one done professionally. Trust me it cost now a days. There is a professional writer in each of these people. The whole key is to see bullets of all of your areas of experience. The employer wants to see your entire history in about 20 sec. which is all the time they spend reading one. Anything else probably goes in the trash. So if I can help you there I will send you my resume to see.......
trolloc6340 25 Posts Jul 27, 2012 Sure Dafabb, any help you can provide would be appreciated. My email is correct on my resume, iwccguy31@yahoo.comI've been shooting from the hip when it comes to resume writing. I am by no means an expert. But i'm getting nowhere, so I'll take any help I can get. I just find it hard to believe that I can't get a job anywhere. I did get one call for an interview. However that was an nursing office type job, and was not interested. I really need to work on the floor and utilize my RN experience. So how close is my resume the second go around?
NellieOlsen 122 Posts Jul 27, 2012 Your second, less wordy, version is much better. My only suggestion is that it's missing some "sparkle" words. Example:Medication administration, wound care, various catheter cares, assessmentsI'd say:Performed medication administration, wound care, various catheter cares, and assessments while providing superior patient care.Just add a few words here and there that showcase your ability to "perform", "delegate", "coordinate", "assist", etc.
NellieOlsen 122 Posts Jul 27, 2012 Also, if you use a resume builder, it will usually condense the personal info (address, email, phone) at the top into a tidy little box. That might save you about 6-10 lines.
diva rn, BSN, RN 963 Posts Specializes in PICU, ICU, Hospice, Mgmt, DON. Has 18 years experience. Jul 28, 2012 You can use resume builder (template) on line...it's free. It creates your resume and it will put it in around 7 different formats for you to choose the one you like the best. It does cost around $5 to download and print. But well worth it.Definitely keep it to ONE page. That web site has many great ideas, also on creating a cover letter.By the way, I would place the education at the end of the resume...it's not as importance as experience.I just redid my resume 3 weeks ago, using this template. I got 2 interviews last Wednesday (and 2 job offers)!!!!!!!I start my new position on August 13!Good luck
NurseOnAMotorcycle, ASN, RN 1 Article; 1,066 Posts Specializes in Med-Surg, Emergency, CEN. Has 10 years experience. Jul 28, 2012 I like your second goal too. With either one, though, tailor it to each position you are applying for before printing it out. Don't forget, the NM doesn't really care if you want any old hospital position, but wants you to care about what they do on their unit. For example instead of:"My goal is to transition to an RN role in an inpatient setting by building upon my existing LPN skills."Try: "My goal is to transition to an RN role at ABC Hospital focusing on __specialty of the unit__ by building upon my existing LPN skills."Or instead of "My goal is to obtain a position as a registered nurse in a hospital setting."Try: "My goal is to obtain a position at a __specialty of the unit__ on _Unit name_ as a registered nurse at ABC Hospital."
