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Does anyone know which organizations nursing students can join that include free membership or low dues..$10. I wanted to join something realistic for a student in order to build my up resume and hopefully become involved within the limited free time I have left after both school and work. I am a second year student in an ADN program. As graduation is coming up in May, I am starting to worry that my resume will not be so impressive to employers. Aside from the nursing program, my related experience includes 3 years as a Home health aide. How am I going to fill up a stand-out page with that one related job and my ADN grad line?? If anyone has any info on the professional organizations or other resume building suggestions I would very much appreciate it!

And have a beautiful day!!

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Specializes in Med/Surg, ICU, educator.

I don't know of any orgs that would fulfill your needs. Anybody?

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Are there any you had joined as a student? How did you make your resume stand out?

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Specializes in AA&I, research,peds, radiation oncology.
Does anyone know which organizations nursing students can join that include free membership or low dues..$10. I wanted to join something realistic for a student in order to build my up resume and hopefully become involved within the limited free time I have left after both school and work. I am a second year student in an ADN program. As graduation is coming up in May, I am starting to worry that my resume will not be so impressive to employers. Aside from the nursing program, my related experience includes 3 years as a Home health aide. How am I going to fill up a stand-out page with that one related job and my ADN grad line?? If anyone has any info on the professional organizations or other resume building suggestions I would very much appreciate it!

And have a beautiful day!!

I don't know of any organizations but I have a question. You're in an ADN program which means you're an LVN/LPN, am I correct? Did you not work in that capacity?! Honestly, work history can help even more than an organization!!! Just my:twocents:

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Specializes in Emergency Dept. Trauma. Pediatrics.
I don't know of any organizations but I have a question. You're in an ADN program which means you're an LVN/LPN, am I correct? Did you not work in that capacity?! Honestly, work history can help even more than an organization!!! Just my:twocents:

I am in an ADN program and will be sitting for my RN I am not LVN/LPN

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Students can join the National Student Nurses Association. At my school it was mandatory. But I can assure you, no employer is interested in this information. They are concerned with your work experience.

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Associates Degree of Nursing, fast paced 2 yr program at a community college. I am not an LPN but do have a lot of patient care experience as a home health aide.

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Is working as a home health aide for 3 or more years enough? Should I apply for casual shifts at local hospitals?

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Specializes in Hospice, corrections, psychiatry, rehab, LTC.

Honestly, I wouldn't worry about taking the time and expense to join an organization. You will be a be a new graduate with no experience as an RN, and a membership isn't going to change that. I carried professional certification for five years but I didn't bother to renew it because no employer cared.

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Specializes in cardiac, ortho, med surg, oncology.

I had no real job history to list on my resume since prior to becoming a nurse I was a stay at home mom. To help build my future prospects after graduation I became involved in the student nursing association at my school where I served as VP. I also became a member of the state student nurse association. I represented my school at the state convention. I also volunteered at my children's schools and tutored other students. I put all that on my resume along with a 4.0 GPA and it DID make a difference in getting a job.

BTW the fees for the school student nursing assoc were reasonable, about $10.00. State student membership fees were reduced due to being a member of the school association.

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Specializes in Med-Surg, Tele, DOU.

Does anyone know which organizations nursing students can join that include free membership or low dues..$10. I wanted to join something realistic for a student in order to build my up resume and hopefully become involved within the limited free time I have left after both school and work. I am a second year student in an ADN program. As graduation is coming up in May, I am starting to worry that my resume will not be so impressive to employers. Aside from the nursing program, my related experience includes 3 years as a Home health aide. How am I going to fill up a stand-out page with that one related job and my ADN grad line?? If anyone has any info on the professional organizations or other resume building suggestions I would very much appreciate it!

And have a beautiful day!!

The best decision in this situation would be to join a SNA if it is available. You will need to highlight your responsibilites while attending school and being involved in the SNA. This is what I did. However, this was a long time ago. And I had many activities that I was involved in while going through nursing school. I was the typical young college student straight out of high school though. My colleagues listed their activities in the SNA along with their responsibilities as CNAs while attending Nursing School.

I would also like to encourage you to highlight your activities as a HHA: any extra responsibilities that you were given (focus on leadership abilities).

You should also highlight your ability to meet customer's needs and the wants that were reasonable or would help to facilitate their healing or ease discomfort. (Think Press Ganey scores.) The focus is to keep the customer happy and safe. Sometimes these conflict.

Be able to articulate when you have had to make the hard choice of keeping someone safe and denying their happiness. Then be able to articulate what you did to try to cushion the patient's disappointment. The name for this is service recovery. (Got it?)

You need to understand exactly who the players are on the financial end of the hospitals--this is CMS. This is the biggest player right now. Everyone is watching to see who is going to make the new rules of reimbursement. CMS is that entity. (Someone correct me if I'm wrong.)

National Patient Safety Goals: What are you currently doing to ensure the financial success of your company? Highlight how your actions impact wounds, safety - preventing falls/injury.

You play a large part of this as an HHA. Tell them you are the first line of defense for warning the nurses when something "doesn't look just right" like a "Stage I or Stage II" pressure wound. Also highlight your ability to see safety issues in the homes and notifying Physical Therapy and the nurse.

I hope this helps.

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Specializes in AA&I, research,peds, radiation oncology.

Sorry to Kendy174 and Mi Vida Loca and to any others-I forget that these programs are open to non-nurses. No disrespect intended!!:nono:

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