Resume of a current student, soon to be new grad?

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I'm working on my resume and was wondering if anyone would be willing to look at it and give me comments about it. I'm in an accelerated degree program and will be graduating in September. I'm applying for a few volunteer and CNA jobs plus I'm going to be starting to look for post graduation employment soon. I didn't have a ton of work experience before going back to school, did have a resume, but I am not sure if the format I have works well for a new nurse. I'm not sure if I should add details about my classes or clinical experiences, clinicals in progress, etc. Any help and advice would be appreciated :)

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yes yes and yes, put clinicals that you were in, and how many hours your were in the program.

volunteering at a hospital before you are an RN is a plus that way you kinda get your foot in the door.

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How would I format adding my clinical stuff to the resume? I've looked online for samples but haven't really found anything that looks good to me.

Here's what I have so far:

EDUCATION

UNIVERSITY, City, State

Accelerated Career Entry BSN Program, Degree anticipated September 2010

GPA: 3.82

Clinical Experience: Hospital, Principles of Nursing, 20 hours clinical/40 hours lab

Hospital, Women’s Health Nursing, 60 hours

Behavioral Health System, Mental Health Nursing, 60 hours

Hospital, Comprehensive Adult Nursing I, 60 hours

The education heading is in a larger font and bold. The last 3 clinicals are currently in progress, but this is the last week. If I'm giving someone my resume today though, should I put a date of completion in there? Or just assume that by the time the resume is actually evaluated the courses will be complete? I'm going to a volunteer orientation tonight so want to have something to hand in, and can work on polishing it for when I am applying places.

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It didn't show up, but the names of the hospitals are lined up under the first one, if that makes sense.

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How would I format adding my clinical stuff to the resume? I've looked online for samples but haven't really found anything that looks good to me.

Here's what I have so far:

EDUCATION

UNIVERSITY, City, State

Accelerated Career Entry BSN Program, Degree anticipated September 2010

GPA: 3.82

Clinical Experience: Hospital, Principles of Nursing, 20 hours clinical/40 hours lab

Hospital, Women's Health Nursing, 60 hours

Behavioral Health System, Mental Health Nursing, 60 hours

Hospital, Comprehensive Adult Nursing I, 60 hours

The education heading is in a larger font and bold. The last 3 clinicals are currently in progress, but this is the last week. If I'm giving someone my resume today though, should I put a date of completion in there? Or just assume that by the time the resume is actually evaluated the courses will be complete? I'm going to a volunteer orientation tonight so want to have something to hand in, and can work on polishing it for when I am applying places.

Very good.

I would just put it this way.

instead of women's health nursing 60hrs I would say this "XYZ Hospital, Maternity/Obstetrics 60 hrs"

for behavioral health system I would say " ABC Hospital, Psychiatry 60hrs"

instead of comprehensive adult nursing I would say "Medical Surgical Nursing Experience 1 60 hrs"

when I did adult nursing, we had one that specialized in ortho.neuro, so I put it like this "medical surginal nursing, specialty orthopedic/neurology 120hrs"

and also, since you are in your last semester, ask if you can get a letter of recommendation from your nurse who'm you are working with. don't be shy about it, just be nice and ask.

Instead of it being completed, since you have not completed it yet. you can put the dates, like lets say, if you are not done with your 60 hrs. You can put "XYX Hospital, Medical Surgical nursing- feb 2010 to present"

because you cant say you have completed something if you haven't yet.

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Thanks for the feedback! After today those clinicals will be completed. I'm on a quarter system so I have two quarters left of the program, so am only halfway through the program, but that still means only 6 months to go, so I'm getting started :)

Is the physical formatting ok?

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yes the format is ok.

as long as you keep it simple, and to one page.

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