Opinions on summary

Yes, it is deceitful to write 'LPN with 8 years of experience' you need to make it clear that you do not have experience as a LPN. It is fraud to try to represent yourself as an experienced LPN when you did not hold a license during that 8 year time period.

I'm not saying I have 8 years of experience as an LPN. I am saying that I am an LPN(which I am) and have 8 years experience passing meds etc.(which I do). Is this any better?:

Caring and compassionate LPN. I am newly licensed but I have 8 years experience in medication administration, physical assessment and patient teaching from previous jobs. I Consistently earn praise from patients and family members for excellent care.

Before you say what patient care skills you have work experience with, you need to clarify what your past positions were and what were your qualifications for those positions were. Were you a med tech? cna? Also, what type of physical assessments were you doing? The way you have written it, it is ambiguous and employers may wonder if you were doing skills that you were not qualified to do.

how long is too long though? I thought the summary was just supposed to be a quick blurb to highlight your best features, like a sales pitch, highlight the good stuff go over the details later.

Just my 2 cents, but I've always been taught that 'summaries' are unnecessary, and I think they're kind of redundant and pointless.

If it were me, I'd scrap the 'summary section' and from the resume, and elaborate on all of the experiences you've just described in your cover letter (and yes, even if the cover letter is optional, I'd always recommend including a solid cover letter).

The experiences that you've highlighted in your summary (CNA/med tech/whatever) should be clearly expressed as entries in the resume already.

I agree with dishes' initial concerns about your wording (accidentally implying you have 8 years of LPN experience), and her concerns about overstating your role in those positions. If you were a med tech or CNA, assessment definitely wouldn't have fallen within your scope (and teaching probably wouldn't have, either). If I were a hiring manager, that might send me some red flags.

If you feel strongly about keeping the summary, maybe try:

Caring and compassionate new graduate LPN with 8 years of relevant healthcare experience as a [CNA/med tech/whatever].

Best of luck.

If you are going to do a summary, it should focus on nursing. It comes off like you are downplaying the fact that you are a new grad. That is how it read to me. The other jobs gave you applicable skills but putting them as your summary of who you are is a bad idea.

Even knowing what you were implying, it comes off as deceptive. Because who u are is a new nurse. this may be good in a cover letter, but not at the top of your resume.

I also think one of the reasons the objective statement is not really standard on resumes anymore is because most tend to sound manufactured and do not sell much because anyone can say those things ... they want the concrete details in the resume...starting with a fluffy statemtent is kindof a turnoff.

Look at some resume sites and see what they recommend.

Thanks everyone. Maybe I'll just scrap the summary and stick with just the resume.