6 Word files you type over and send. Your license state, number and expiration date, your certification expiry, your unit and patient ratio each get their own labelled line — leave one of them blank and a nurse recruiter cannot confirm you are eligible to work today.
Name and credentials: DANIELLE OKAFOR, BSN, RN, CMSRN
Location line: Chicago, IL 60614 | Open to day or night shift
Contact line: (312) 555-0148 | [email protected] | linkedin.com/in/danielleokafor-rn
Licensure line: Illinois RN License #041.512345 | Active through 05/31/2027
US convention, and this is the part that gets people screened out: no photo, no date of birth, no marital status, no nationality. If a template you downloaded has a photo box, that template is written for another country. How to open this file: in Word, File ▸ Open. In Google Docs, File ▸ Open ▸ Upload — fonts and margins shift slightly there, so check where the page breaks before you send. Menu wording differs between Word versions and interface languages.
Summary headline: Medical-Surgical RN with 6 years on a 32-bed adult telemetry unit
Summary body: Six years of adult inpatient care on a 32-bed telemetry unit with a typical assignment of five patients, plus two years as relief charge nurse. Precepted 11 new-graduate nurses and led the unit's fall-prevention huddle.
Specialty focus line: Specialty focus: cardiac telemetry, post-cardiac-catheterization recovery, and rapid-response support
Recruiters read this block and nothing else on the first pass. Three lines, all facts, no adjectives.
RN license: Registered Nurse, Illinois — License #041.512345, active through 05/31/2027
Multistate / compact status: Multistate privilege under the Nurse Licensure Compact, primary state of residence: Illinois
Life support certifications: BLS and ACLS, American Heart Association — both current through 09/2026
Specialty certification: CMSRN, Medical-Surgical Nursing Certification Board — certified since 2022
Why the free template already on your laptop will not do this job: a general resume file gives you a 'Skills' box and nothing else. It has no line for your license number, no line for a certification expiry date, and no line for your patient ratio — the three things a nurse recruiter checks before reading a single duty. Each of them has its own labelled line here.
Current position header: Staff Nurse II, Telemetry — Ravenswood Regional Medical Center, Chicago, IL — June 2021 to Present
Core assignment duty: Carry a five-patient telemetry assignment on nights, including post-cardiac-catheterization recovery, continuous cardiac monitoring, and admission assessments from the emergency department.
Charge or leadership duty: Serve as relief charge nurse for the 32-bed unit two to four shifts per month, making patient assignments across 8 to 10 staff and coordinating admission flow with the house supervisor.
Teaching or outcome duty: Precepted 11 new-graduate nurses through a 12-week orientation, 10 of whom completed orientation on schedule.
Previous position header: Staff Nurse I, Medical-Surgical — Lakeside Community Hospital, Evanston, IL — August 2019 to June 2021
Every job needs a month-and-year start and end. An unexplained gap is fine; an undated job is not, because the reader cannot tell whether your experience is current.
Degree: Bachelor of Science in Nursing, University of Illinois Chicago — May 2019
Skills line: EHR documentation and barcode medication administration, IV insertion and PICC dressing changes, telemetry rhythm interpretation, Spanish (conversational)
This whole file is the free one. It is finished on purpose: all five sections, all eighteen fields, every sample line complete. Fill it in and send it without buying anything.
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6 Word files you type over and send. Your license state, number and expiration date, your certification expiry, your unit and patient ratio each get their own labelled line — leave one of th
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