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Brilliant to counter the hospital's "no obligation" to saying you actually prefer working weekends. Not at all unusual for nursing students to be unavailable during the week. I agree, your classwork will make you a more desirable employee.

However, you are not a nurse (not yet anyway). What you may have heard about is working RNs that leave or require special hours to go back to school to obtain a BSN degree.

I wouldn't go below 11-point font (preferably 12-point font though). You don't want to do anything that will make it difficult for someone to read it. The statistic I've heard is that a recruiter spends on average 5-7 seconds looking at a resume before going to the next one.

Also, from everything I've been told, you no longer need to include references on your resume. They generally will either ask you for them if they want them or will include an area for references in the actual application. So, you could easily take off your references and have no issue with keeping it at one page then.

References don't go on your resume. I find a summary statement unnecessary (though it is better than an objective). I don't have one on my resume and I've been called for 4 interviews in the last 2 weeks but, then again, I do have 10+ years of nursing experience. I would leave it as a 12 point.

I don't think there's anything wrong with a CNA saying that she is interested in going into nursing. That doesn't necessarily mean that you will leave the employer and, with the abundance of nursing students looking for CNA positions, employers don't generally have a difficult time filling those positions anyway.

Thanks for the responses everyone. I had gotten two job offers- one of them being in a transitionary care unit where I would have the potential to learn some really cool stuff, but I was afraid of it conflicting with my school schedule and also being overwhelmed by the particular department with almost no experience as a CNA at all.

Instead, I got a job working at an assisted living center that's much slower-paced. It works incredibly well with my school schedule and I think it's a good way for me, personally, to transition into working in the healthcare field. I won't be starting until sometime next month, but man, I'm excited.