Resume/Cover letter question

[MotesRN]

We are relocating out of state, and I would like to apply for a PCU position. However, the positions I'm seeing online require experience.

I have worked at two hospitals in my area in the past five years - 3 years on a cardiac telemetry unit and 2 years on a medical surgical trauma unit.

At the first hospital, we took patients on cardizem drips and nitroglycerin drips. The hospital I am currently at where I am MS Trauma, would require these patients to be in at least PCU.

The hospital I am currently at, we can take patients who are on BiPap, insulin drips. However, the hospital where I worked cardiac telemetry would require BiPap or insulin drips to be in the ICU as there was no PCU there (My cardiac telemetry floor took many "inappropriate" patients as there was no step-down or PCU, and intensivists were extremely selective in the patients who were admitted to the ICU)

My question is - I don't think that I can put PCU experience on my resume as neither of these floors were a designated PCU floor, but would it be appropriate to include in the cover letter that I have experience managing patients on cardizem, nitroglycerin, and insulin drips, as well as BiPap?

[NICU Guy, BSN, RN]

You can put it in your cover letter and resume the skills, equipment, and patient types that would correlate to PCU. You need to get across to them that even though you don't have PCU unit experience, you have experience in dealing with PCU type patients.