Coriel

Hello! I'll be graduating with BSN from Texas Tech in April '22. I want to continue on for my master's in FNP. However, I left bedside care in 9/2015 to stay at home with my kids. Before this, I had 15 years of bedside care experience (med/surg, ICU, PACU). Has anyone been in the same situation and been accepted to and/or successfully completed their FNP? My work gap concerns me as my experience isn't recent and I'm wondering how this would impact my ability to be successful in an FPN program. Thanks

Hello there! I've been a SAHM now for the past 3 years and I'm currently updating my resume to return to work (eeeekkk!) All of my experience has been in an acute care setting. Before I stopped working as an RN to stay at home with my son, I worked in PACU, before that I was in interventional radiology, aaannnddd before that I worked as a travel ICU nurse for several years. Before traveling I worked at my local hospital in the ICU. My preference would be to stay away from acute care settings. So it'll be a switch for sure. Obviously my experience lends itself to the hospital setting and I'll surely go into detail on my most recent experience (PACU/IR) on my resume. However, where I get stumped is on my travel nurse experience.... To go into detail about each assignment would be quit lengthy and I would be happy to do so if I was looking to stay in acute care. I really would like to consolidate it into one entry and list the hospitals of each assignment (all ICU) underneath with corresponding dates. Wondering if anyone has been in a similar situation or could advise on this resume dilemma? Thanks