Resume critique please

[MPKH, BSN, RN]

I'm a RN with 9 months of experience in a rural facility...hoping to land a job in an urban area. I have started looking for jobs, and I'd like your honest critique of my resume please :) Thanks in advance!

MPKH, RN

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Registered Nurse

Performance Profile

Registered Nurse with acute medical-surgical nursing experience in a rural setting; possessing strong interpersonal and clinical skills delivering competent, safe, and professional nursing care. Have Charge Nurse experience; familiar with skills such as delegation, order processing, patient assignment and making rounds with physicians. Capable of working in a calm and efficient manner as patients experience destabilization in medical status; have experience in monitoring and stabilizing patients in critical conditions prior to transfers to urban facilities. Experienced in working as part of an interdisciplinary healthcare team, and able to communicate in a clear, concise manner. Conscientious, dependable, punctual, and eager to learn.

Skills and Competencies

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• Charge Nurse duties
  
• Nursing process
  
• Admission and Discharge planning
  
• Patient advocacy
  
• Patient education
  

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• Intravenous medication administration
  
• Heparin drips
  
• Insulin drips
  
• PICC line maintenance
  
• Drawing blood from PICC line
  

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• Blood and blood product administration
  
• Wound care
  
• Catheter maintenance
  
• Peritoneal dialysis
  
• End-of-life care
  

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Professional Experiences

Staff Nurse - Current Hospital. Nov 2011-current

Provided nursing care to acute medical-surgical patients with varied diagnoses such as COPD, myocardial infarction, post CABG surgery, post orthopaedic surgery, renal failure, infections and cancer. Responsibilities include assessment and evaluation of care, acting as a liaison between the patient and the healthcare team and ongoing planning of patient care. Orientated to being Charge Nurse and able to perform Charge Nurse duties, facilitating the general operation of the unit.

Staff Nurse - Not so current Hospital. Sept 2011-Nov 2011

Provided nursing care to acute patients in the acute care unit, and acquired beginning experience working with triage and assessment in an outpatient department.

Licensure and Certification

Sept 2011 - present RN Licence

March 2012 BLS, Level HCP

Education

May 2011 Bachelor of Science in Nursing

References Available Upon Request