Resume Advice. New RN. No work experience. Please Help!

Bayat · Jun 27, 2013

I'm sure this becoming standard advice, but while looking volunteer at a free clinic or local hospital one or days a week. That way you can get some experience listed.

Now about your resume: Your clinicals listing is really confusing. I'm assuming you're listing clinicals from both the Philippines and locally. So the clinical area are grouped with their hours, then the first bullet item would list the hospitals and clinics you performed the clinicals in. Let's see what someone else think of this idea.

I also assume you acquired a degree or certification in the Philippines as well as stateside. So you should list that alongside your BSN degree.

In the meantime, this is what turned up. Be sure to review and tailor to your knowledge, skills and abilities:

Zero O. Ooo, RN

123 address Sfx • City, ST 12345 • (000) 555-1234 • [email protected]

Registered Nurse Determined to Excel

Energetic and motivational professional with international experience and leader dedicated to driving top-quality patient care. Looking for a position in a top-notch facility with a commitment to innovative processes.

PROFESSIONAL PROFILE

• Demonstrates excellent interpersonal and communication skills in an interdisciplinary team providing competent patient care.

• Detail-oriented with strong technical skills and the ability to learn concepts quickly.

• Without fail, projects a polished, positive and professional demeanor.

LICENSURE AND CERTIFICATIONS

Registered Nurse in State of XXXXXX, License Number 098765

Basic Life Support for Healthcare Providers (CPR and AED), certified by American Heart Association, current until June 2015

SKILL HIGHLIGHTS

. . . • Med-surg . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . • Foley catheter procedures

. . . • IV therapy experience . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . • Microsoft Office suite

. . . • Patient assessment . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . • Bilingual in Tagalog and English

. . . • Patient education . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . • Strong medical ethic

EDUCATION AND TRAINING

Bachelor of Science: Some University – Nursing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Apr 20XX

Location, ST

[ of or certificate]: Education facility –

Location, Philippines

CLINICAL EXPERIENCE: xx/20xx – 01/2012

OB/GYN . . . . . . . . . . . . . 132 hrs . . . . . . . . . . . . Emergency Room . . . . . . 168 hrs

Medical-surgical . . . . . . . xxx hrs . . . . . . . . . . . . Psychiatric . . . . . . . . . . . . xx hrs

Pediatrics . . . . . . . . . . . . .xx hrs . . . . . . . . . . . . .Geriatrics . . . . . . . . . . . . .xx hrs

OR . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . xx hrs . . . . . . . . . . . . .ER . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .xx hrs

Communicable disease . . xx hrs . . . . . . . . . . . . . Orthopedics . . . . . . . . . . xx hrs

School health . . . . . . . . . xx hrs

Summary:

. . . • Completed XXXX total rotation hours at and Hospital Name, Location, ST.

. . . • Conducted health programs in X small communities and at X public health clinics in the Philippines providing nursing functions such as obtaining vital signs, giving medications, regulating IV fluids, and charting.

. . . • Performed patient assessment, IV removal, cardiopulmonary resuscitation, foley catheter insertion/removal, nasogastric tube feeding, oral suctioning, wound care and dressing changes with minimum supervision with patients per day.

. . . • Administered medications via oral and injection routes using the five rights of medication administration and monitored for side effects, resulting in .

. . . • Assessed patients with complaints such as chest pain, abdominal pain, sprains and broken bones, upper respiratory infections, cuts and contusions, and skin infections.

. . . • Instructed mothers on well-balance diets, breastfeeding and umbilical cord care.

. . . • Delivered infants and provided prenatal and postpartum care and treatment under obstetrician's supervision.

zerooooo · Jun 27, 2013

Thank You Bayat!. That looks so much better.

I'm sorry I forgot to include that I'm a foreign graduate and I obtained my BSN in the Philippines. I only had clinicals there.

I hope this is going make sense. I'll try to get back with the hours for the clinical areas since my exposure in certain areas were done throughout the 4 years not just a certain semester like here in the States (correct me if I'm wrong). With that said do you think I should just group all the hours using this "Completed a total of 2,346 hours of related learning experiences in school at approximately 15 hospitals (primary, secondary, and tertiary) covering areas in medical-surgical, psychiatric, pediatrics, geriatrics, OB/GYN, OR, ER, communicable disease, orthopedics, and school health nursing" then the summary below it?. I would appreciate your opinion.

westcoastguy · Jun 27, 2013

I'm sure this becoming standard advice, but while looking volunteer at a free clinic or local hospital one or days a week. That way you can get some experience listed.
Now about your resume: Your clinicals listing is really confusing. I'm assuming you're listing clinicals from both the Philippines and locally. So the clinical area are grouped with their hours, then the first bullet item would list the hospitals and clinics you performed the clinicals in. Let's see what someone else think of this idea.
I also assume you acquired a degree or certification in the Philippines as well as stateside. So you should list that alongside your BSN degree.
In the meantime, this is what turned up. Be sure to review and tailor to your knowledge, skills and abilities:
Zero O. Ooo, RN
123 address Sfx • City, ST 12345 • (000) 555-1234 • [email protected]
Registered Nurse Determined to Excel
Energetic and motivational professional with international experience and leader dedicated to driving top-quality patient care. Looking for a position in a top-notch facility with a commitment to innovative processes.PROFESSIONAL PROFILE
• Demonstrates excellent interpersonal and communication skills in an interdisciplinary team providing competent patient care.
• Detail-oriented with strong technical skills and the ability to learn concepts quickly.
• Without fail, projects a polished, positive and professional demeanor.LICENSURE AND CERTIFICATIONS
Registered Nurse in State of XXXXXX, License Number 098765
Basic Life Support for Healthcare Providers (CPR and AED), certified by American Heart Association, current until June 2015SKILL HIGHLIGHTS
. . . • Med-surg . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . • Foley catheter procedures
. . . • IV therapy experience . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . • Microsoft Office suite
. . . • Patient assessment . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . • Bilingual in Tagalog and English
. . . • Patient education . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . • Strong medical ethicEDUCATION AND TRAINING
Bachelor of Science: Some University – Nursing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Apr 20XX
Location, ST
[ of or certificate]: Education facility –
Location, PhilippinesCLINICAL EXPERIENCE: xx/20xx – 01/2012
OB/GYN . . . . . . . . . . . . . 132 hrs . . . . . . . . . . . . Emergency Room . . . . . . 168 hrs
Medical-surgical . . . . . . . xxx hrs . . . . . . . . . . . . Psychiatric . . . . . . . . . . . . xx hrs
Pediatrics . . . . . . . . . . . . .xx hrs . . . . . . . . . . . . .Geriatrics . . . . . . . . . . . . .xx hrs
OR . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . xx hrs . . . . . . . . . . . . .ER . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .xx hrs
Communicable disease . . xx hrs . . . . . . . . . . . . . Orthopedics . . . . . . . . . . xx hrs
School health . . . . . . . . . xx hrs
Summary:
. . . • Completed XXXX total rotation hours at and Hospital Name, Location, ST.
. . . • Conducted health programs in X small communities and at X public health clinics in the Philippines providing nursing functions such as obtaining vital signs, giving medications, regulating IV fluids, and charting.
. . . • Performed patient assessment, IV removal, cardiopulmonary resuscitation, foley catheter insertion/removal, nasogastric tube feeding, oral suctioning, wound care and dressing changes with minimum supervision with patients per day.
. . . • Administered medications via oral and injection routes using the five rights of medication administration and monitored for side effects, resulting in .
. . . • Assessed patients with complaints such as chest pain, abdominal pain, sprains and broken bones, upper respiratory infections, cuts and contusions, and skin infections.
. . . • Instructed mothers on well-balance diets, breastfeeding and umbilical cord care.
. . . • Delivered infants and provided prenatal and postpartum care and treatment under obstetrician's supervision.

Hi bayat. Can you help me too. i try to message you here.. I can give my email to you. I read all your posts here and seems you really good in resume.. Please help me I really appreciate it! Thanks :)

Yozora · Aug 22, 2014

Hi! I have the same dilemma as you. I have no work experience so this post help me in my own resume. Did you find a job with this? :)

amzyRN · Aug 24, 2014

There are many templates you can look on online. Sometimes it's just that you don't have the experience they want. If you are in a highly competitive state, consider relocating for a while to obtain the experience you need. Google, nursing resumes templates. Look at those. Then look at key words and nursing resumes and put those in. Take the fancy formatting out of your resume when apply online because I think it goes through a software program that picks out key words. If you have weird font, your resume won't get read. I've been told this by someone who worked in HR before, that you want simple formats and key words. Didn't mean to provide info you weren't wanting, when all you wanted in a critique of your resume, but thought that I could point some other things out. When you do have your resume done, have a bunch of people read it and tell you what they think.

Yozora · Aug 25, 2014

Unfortunately I cannot relocate, I wish I could. Thank you for all the tips! I will make sure to make my resume simple, direct with important key words. :yes: Maybe I'll post my resume here to be critiqued, once I'm done. :up: