How to count clinical hours

[bamboowoo]

Hi. I was wondering how to count my clinical rotation hours for my resume.

Do you count the hours that were spent in the simulation lab before going into the hospital? Or do you purely count the hospital hours?

Thank you.

[elkpark]

Why would you be putting clinical hours on a resume'? Unless you did some really special and unusual clinical rotation, employers will have a general idea of what clinical rotations you had and won't really care about the number of hours. Clearly, you had enough hour to qualify for licensure, and that's about all most will care about. The license speaks for itself.

[theantichick]

I was advised to out my clinical hours on my resume as a new grad. However, it was for the reason that our program had significantly more clinical hours than the others in our area. I broke mine down by clinical site to show I'd exposed myself to as many facilities in the area as possible. I did not count SIM lab time, just my clinical hours themselves. I received very good feedback about my resume when I was interviewing.

I wouldn't say it's always a good idea because if it's not something that makes you stand out from the crowd in a positive way then it's counter-productive.

[Swellz]

I was told to put my clinicals on my resume by an administrator at my nursing school. Then, at a job fair, I had two different HR reps ask me why I did that. One got really uppity because he saw so many resumes like that and he thought it was ridiculous. I redid my resume to leave them out after that.

[angrykitten]

The only clinical I listed on my resume was my capstone because it directly related to jobs I was applying for - I listed it under my degree. I have heard of listing all your clinicals, but instructors at my school recommended if you were going to, to list them on a second sheet.

[bamboowoo]

Thanks y'all for the feedback. I thought you were supposed to include clinical hours, but maybe this is not the case anymore.

[PCnurse88]

I'm glad I read this because my instructors told us to put our clinical hours on our resumes - they also told us it would be easy to find a job because of the nursing shortage, though. I have two things to add: 1) some of the job postings I've applied to did specifically say to list clinical hours, but these were for new grad positions and 2) most of my high school friends became teachers and they all list their student teaching hours, are told to do so, is this not similar?