Nursing screens start with the license. Write Registered Nurse or RN, and the state, rather than “nurse.” A compact license is worth naming when you hold one. Education is a separate line: BSN, ADN, or a diploma program. If the posting says BSN required and you have an ADN, leave the BSN off. A degree the posting calls preferred stays preferred.
Certifications are where resumes go vague. BLS is not ACLS. PALS, NRP, TNCC, and NIH Stroke Scale are their own lines. Put down the ones you hold. Charting systems are the other miss. Epic, Cerner, and Meditech do not match the word “EMR.” Name the system you have charted in, on the unit where you used it.
Name the unit. ICU, emergency, med-surg, labor and delivery, and step-down are not interchangeable titles. “Staff nurse” with no unit gives the screen nothing to match. Vents, drips, charge, precepting, or a specific patient population belong in a bullet only when that was your work. Floating belongs on that same job as well. Do not borrow a unit, a ratio, or a certification from a coworker.
This nursing resume checker is free. Paste the posting and the resume you would send. It shows which license, certification, and unit words the posting asked for, and which of those are already on your resume. A missing phrase is something to add only if it is true. The page does not promise that a unit will call. We help you get hired, from start to starting.
Questions
- Should the resume say RN or Registered Nurse? Either phrase matches the other. Add the state of the license, and list BLS or ACLS on their own if you hold them.
- Does “EMR” cover Epic? No. Name Epic, Cerner, or the system you charted in, and name the unit you worked.
- Is this nursing resume checker free? Yes. It matches your resume to one posting. It will not tell you a hospital will hire you.