Should I remove short term employment from my resume?

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Hi there!

I'm currently in my second year of Practical Nursing, graduating in April, and just hoping for advice with my resume. In the "work history" section I have my current position as an HCA (Health Care Aide; I live in Canada so this might be known as a CNA elsewhere) which I've held for nearly 3 years. Before this, I worked as a special needs support worker with a family whose child had autism, for 1 year.

Between these two jobs I worked as a support worker (similar to job #2), but I only held this position for 3 months. I was just in the process of completing my schooling to become an HCA, had to quit job #2 for unrelated circumstances and just took this job as an in-between thing until I got a job as an HCA once I graduated.

Should I remove this short-term employment of only 3 months from my resume? Just not sure if it'll help or hurt my chances in any way...

Thanks!!

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Specializes in Rehab, Ortho-Spine, Med-Surg, & Psych.

Three month's experience in a job is not really experience... I'd leave it out of my resume.

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