Psych Nurse Resume

[Texas02]

Hello all,

It's been a long while since I have come back to this website because I have been busy with nursing school. I have (God willing!) 4 more classes left, so I have been beginning to think about what I want to be when I grow up. I'm positive I want to be a psych nurse.

I have a bachelors of science in psychology, and I have worked as a medical assistant with people who have mental illness and my job right before I started nursing school was at a behavioral health center. I also did my clinical for my mental health rotation at one of the top 5 psych hospitals in the country, I learned a lot there as well. I had no idea this is what I wanted to stick to going into nursing school. As a medical assistant I worked in a few different areas of medicine but nothing made me love a specialty as much as mental health.

With that being said, I have worked in a few different places over the years and of course I have my clinical experiences. I would like to know if there is anyone that could put into words the best way to round out my resume for when I graduate to show that this is my thing, this is what I love to do and what I have even though it may be minimal right now, experience in doing. Or if anyone could direct me to a site that can help me out.

How would I word things, and for hiring managers should I put emphasis on just my psych experience or all of it? What are people looking for on a resume for a psych nurse?

Any help would be great. Thank you in advance.