Should I remove clinical experience and my first job from my resume? Advice please!

[nurse1045]

I graduated with my BSN in June 2020. Since then I've had 3 jobs. I have a few questions about my resume. If anyone could give advice I would be really thankful. An answer to any of the questions below will help!

- Should I remove my clinical experience from my resume? June 2019 to March 2020

- My first job out of college was from July to October 2020 as a med-surg nurse and it only lasted for 3 months. Should I remove this from my resume? I've gotten questions at interviews in the past about this job and I don't like to talk about it because I was terminated at the end of my orientation. I did learn a lot of different skills at this job though.

- If I get rid of clinical experience and my first nursing job it will leave me with two contract jobs doing immunizations (1st was for 3 months and 2nd was for 5 months). Both were at the same company. The job descriptions were a bit different (one was only covid vaccines and the other was all immunizations). There's also a gap of time between the two jobs. One was March to May 2021 and the other was September 2021 to February 2022. Should I somehow combine them or keep them separated on my resume?

[SICURN19]

On 3/13/2022 at 10:49 AM, klone said:

Unless your clinical experience was different from anyone else's clinical experience, there is no need to put it on your resume. Everyone has pretty much the same clinical experience. As a hiring manager, I don't look at it whatsoever. Leave it off.

 

In my experience listing my capstone helped me get my first job. I agree that listing all clinicals is kind of generic but I think there is value in listing your capstone, especially if it was in a specialty or an area of nursing that is relevant to units you are applying to.