Nurse Resume Template — 6 Editable Word Resumes (New Grad, ICU Transfer, Travel, Charge-to-Manager, LPN-to-RN, Return to Practice)

6 ready-to-fill .docx resumes, each written for one real nursing career move. Single-column, no tables — a two-column template can reach the recruiter with your license line dropped or scrambled by the applicant tracking system, and a nurse resume without an active license number is screened out before a human reads it.

Header

Write your credentials in the order highest degree, licence, certifications (BSN, RN, CCRN). Do not add a photo, date of birth or marital status — in the U.S. market that is a reason to discard the resume.

City, state abbreviation and ZIP only. Do not put your street address; recruiters only need to know you can commute or that you are relocating.

One number, the one you will actually answer during the day. Nurse recruiters call rather than email.

Use firstname.lastname at a normal provider. Replace a school email that expires after graduation — it will bounce mid-hiring.

Say your shift availability outright — new-grad residencies are staffed on nights. Delete this line only if you have no flexibility to offer.

Licenses and Certifications

Put your real license number and expiry date here, exactly as printed on the license. If you are still awaiting results, write: 'NCLEX-RN scheduled 07/2026; Illinois RN license application submitted 06/2026'.

Only state this once you have the result. Delete the line rather than predicting a pass.

Name the issuing body and the expiry month. An expired BLS card is the most common reason a nurse candidate is held at the onboarding stage.

List certifications you hold or have booked, with the date. Do not list a certification you only intend to take.

Professional Summary

Replace the hour count with the number of clinical hours your own program recorded — your school can confirm it. Never state an hour count you have not verified.

Use the ratio and unit type from your longest rotation. Match the unit name to the posting's wording — write 'telemetry' if the posting says telemetry, not 'cardiac floor'.

Clinical Rotations and Practicum

Give facility, city, state, MM/YYYY dates and hours. Write what you personally did on shift, not what the rotation 'exposed you to'.

Name real events you handled and how you escalated them. Escalation judgement is what a med-surg manager is looking for in a new graduate.

Keep rotations in reverse-chronological order, newest first. Drop the shortest rotation if this runs past one page.

Include a second language here only if you can work in it clinically. Bilingual nurses are actively recruited, but the claim will be tested at interview.

Education, Skills and Work History

Include GPA only if it is 3.5 or above. State the graduation month and year, not a range.

Replace this list with skills you have actually performed unsupervised or under preceptor sign-off. Add the name of the EHR system used at your clinical site — postings often screen on it.

Keep non-nursing jobs only if they show patient contact, shift reliability or customer handling. Delete unrelated retail work if space is short.

List only current memberships with the years. Delete this section entirely rather than padding it.

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6 ready-to-fill .docx resumes, each written for one real nursing career move. Single-column, no tables — a two-column template can reach the recruiter with your license line dropped or scram

In the United States a professional resume writer typically charges about $150–$400 to write one nurse resume, and bills again for each career move (new grad → ICU → travel → management). This pack covers 6 of those moves in one $

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Header

Name and credentials: Jordan M. Rivera, BSN, RN

City, state and ZIP: Chicago, IL 60614

Phone: (312) 555-0148

Email: [email protected]

Relocation or availability line: Available for day, night or rotating shifts; relocating to the Chicago metro area in August 2026.

One column, no tables, no text boxes, no icons. This is deliberate: hospital application portals parse the file top to bottom, and a two-column or table layout can move your license number into the wrong field or drop it entirely.

Licenses and Certifications

RN license: Registered Nurse — State of Illinois, License No. 041-512345, active through 05/31/2027

NCLEX status: NCLEX-RN: passed on first attempt, 06/2026

Basic Life Support: Basic Life Support (BLS) for Healthcare Providers, American Heart Association — expires 08/2027

Additional certification or course: Advanced Cardiovascular Life Support (ACLS), American Heart Association — course scheduled 09/2026

Place this section directly under the header, above the summary. A nurse recruiter checks licence, state and expiry before reading anything else; burying it at the bottom of page two is what gets an otherwise strong resume set aside.

Professional Summary

Summary: New graduate registered nurse with 720 supervised clinical hours across medical-surgical, telemetry, maternal-newborn and community health rotations, seeking a med-surg new graduate residency position.

Target and fit line: Comfortable on a 5:1 medical-surgical assignment under preceptor supervision, with documented experience in admission assessments, medication administration and electronic health record charting.

Three lines maximum. A new-graduate summary that opens with 'hardworking, compassionate team player' says nothing a screener can filter on; hours, unit types and ratios do.

Clinical Rotations and Practicum

Capstone or final practicum: Senior Practicum — Medical-Surgical Unit, Northshore Regional Medical Center, Evanston, IL — 01/2026 to 05/2026 (180 hours). Carried a 4-patient assignment under preceptor supervision; completed admission assessments, discharge teaching and full shift documentation.

Rotation 2: Telemetry / Progressive Care Rotation, Saint Anne Hospital, Chicago, IL — 09/2025 to 12/2025 (135 hours). Monitored continuous cardiac rhythms, escalated two symptomatic bradycardia events to the charge nurse, and assisted with post-catheterisation recovery care.

Rotation 3: Maternal-Newborn Rotation, Lakeview Women's Hospital, Chicago, IL — 05/2025 to 08/2025 (90 hours). Performed newborn assessments, supported first-hour breastfeeding initiation and documented maternal vital signs post-delivery.

Rotation 4 or community placement: Community and Public Health Rotation, Cook County Public Health Clinic, Chicago, IL — 01/2025 to 04/2025 (90 hours). Ran immunisation intake for walk-in clinics and delivered diabetes self-management teaching in English and Spanish.

For a new graduate this section replaces work experience and belongs above education. Keep every entry in the past tense and reverse-chronological order.

Education, Skills and Work History

Nursing degree: Bachelor of Science in Nursing (BSN), University of Illinois Chicago, College of Nursing, Chicago, IL — graduated 05/2026, GPA 3.7/4.0

Clinical skills: IV insertion and maintenance · Foley catheterisation · wound care and dressing changes · nasogastric tube care · blood glucose monitoring · telemetry rhythm interpretation · sterile technique · electronic health record documentation

Prior work experience: Certified Nursing Assistant, Willow Grove Skilled Nursing Facility, Chicago, IL — 06/2023 to 12/2025. Provided activities of daily living care for 12 residents per shift, recorded intake and output, and reported status changes to the charge nurse.

Professional memberships and honours: Member, National Student Nurses' Association, 2024 to 2026 · Dean's List, Fall 2025

How to open and send this file: 1) open the .docx in Microsoft Word. 2) In Google Docs use File ▸ Open ▸ Upload. Menu names differ between Word versions and interface languages. Note that Google Docs may shift the fonts and margins slightly — check page breaks before you send. Unless the posting asks for .docx, submit as PDF from Word (File ▸ Save As ▸ PDF) so the layout cannot move.

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