Resume Advice Please! Clueless New Grad here...

RunBabyRN · Dec 9, 2014

I would expand on your old jobs a bit more. Make it relate to nursing- did you have to multitask? Problem-solve? Things like that are all relevant.

For your clinical experience, it's redundant to say under each site that you were an ADN student. You also don't necessarily need the dates, but put how many hours you spent on each unit. I wouldn't list out the skills that are expected of every nursing student. I think you can condense this section a lot.

Did you do a preceptorship?

Here's a copy and paste (with edits!) of my description of my clinical experience:

Senior Preceptorship, Local mid-size hospital, My town, CA, January-April 2014, 185 hours

Mother baby unit- performed the role of a registered nurse under the supervision of a preceptor RN, providing comprehensive, culturally-sensitive care for up to 4 couplets and their families; assessed mothers and newborns after lady partsl and cesarean births; administered IV, oral, ocular and parenteral medications; checked blood sugars using Accudata; tended to surgical incisions and skin tears; managed complications such as psychiatric diagnoses, incarceration, CPS involvement, maternal and newborn blood glucose abnormalities, hypermagnesemia, cerebral palsy, jaundice, reflux, cold stress, drug use, subgaleal hemorrhage, apnea, uterine deformity, anuria, urethral trauma, chorioamnionitis, and postpartum hemorrhage; referred patients to community resources and providers; provided education regarding parenting, self-care, newborn health and feeding; provided lactation support and guidance.

Other clinical experience included:

Medical/Surgical-Local mid-size hospital, 270 hours. Included rotations in ED, ICU, cardiac cath lab and surgical units.

Maternal Child- Local mid-size hospital, 90 hours

Mental Health- various locations throughout this County, 90 hours

Pediatrics- Local trauma center ED; Poor Neighborhood Schools, 90 hours

Community health- Poor Neighborhood Schools, 90 hours