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Registered nurse resume example

Nurse recruiters screen first for licensure, certifications (BLS, ACLS) and unit type, then for evidence of safe, high-quality care. A strong RN resume makes those filters effortless to pass and uses the bullets for outcomes: patient load, quality measures, and the projects you led on the unit.

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Emily Johnson's registered nurse resume, typeset in the Classic template

Typeset by the AI-Resume engine in the Classic template. Every person, company and number in this example is fictional.

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Emily Johnson
Registered Nurse, Cardiac Telemetry
emily.johnson@example.com · (503) 555-0193 · Portland, OR · linkedin.com/in/emilyjohnsonrn
Summary

Registered Nurse with six years of acute care experience, four on a 32-bed cardiac telemetry unit. Delivers patient care for four to five telemetry patients a shift, precepts new graduates, and led a falls-prevention project that cut unit falls by 40%.

Experience
St. Brennan Medical CenterMar 2022 – Present
Registered Nurse, Cardiac TelemetryPortland, OR
  • Delivered patient care for four to five telemetry patients per shift on a 32-bed cardiac unit.
  • Led a falls-prevention project with hourly rounding, cutting unit falls by 40% over 12 months.
  • Trained 11 new graduate nurses as their preceptor through a 12-week orientation; all passed competency checks.
  • Improved patient education for heart-failure discharges, contributing to a 15% drop in 30-day readmissions.
Riverbend Community HospitalJun 2020 – Feb 2022
Registered Nurse, Med-SurgVancouver, WA
  • Managed medication administration and IV therapy for up to six med-surg patients per shift.
  • Documented care in Epic and served as unit super-user during the EHR upgrade for 60 nurses.
  • Completed discharge planning with case management for an average of 20 patients a week.
Skills

Clinical: Patient care, Telemetry, Medication administration, IV therapy, Patient education

Systems: Epic, EHR

Education
Oregon Health & Science University2016 – 2020
B.S. Nursing
Certifications
Basic Life Support (BLS)2025
American Heart Association
Advanced Cardiovascular Life Support (ACLS)2025
American Heart Association

Why this registered nurse resume works

The summary

Registered Nurse with six years of acute care experience, four on a 32-bed cardiac telemetry unit. Delivers patient care for four to five telemetry patients a shift, precepts new graduates, and led a falls-prevention project that cut unit falls by 40%.

Licensure and unit type in the first sentence, because they are the filters; patient load and one quality outcome in the second, because they are what a nurse manager remembers.

Bullets, before and after

The same work, described first the way most resumes do it, then the way this one does.

Before

Took care of patients on the telemetry unit.

After

Delivered patient care for four to five telemetry patients per shift on a 32-bed cardiac unit.

Patient ratio and unit size tell a nurse manager your acuity and pace in one line.

Before

Participated in a falls-prevention initiative.

After

Led a falls-prevention project with hourly rounding, cutting unit falls by 40% over 12 months.

“Led” instead of “participated in”, and a quality measure every hospital tracks.

Before

Helped train new nurses.

After

Trained 11 new graduate nurses as their preceptor through a 12-week orientation; all passed competency checks.

A count and an outcome, plus “preceptor” — the word nurse managers search for.

Skills recruiters search for

List the ones you could be interviewed on — and show the most important in a bullet, where they count for about twice as much.

Clinical
  • Patient care
  • Telemetry
  • Medication administration
  • IV therapy
  • Wound care
Certifications
  • BLS
  • ACLS
  • PALS
  • TNCC
Systems
  • Epic
  • Cerner
  • EHR
Practice
  • Patient education
  • Discharge planning
  • Precepting
  • Infection control

What the scorer would still say

Even a strong resume gets notes. These are the scorer’s own, unedited.

  • Required skills sit in older roles. Medication administration appear only in roles that ended a while ago. If you have used them since, say so in a recent bullet.

Questions

Should I put my nursing license number on my resume?

Listing the licensing state and type is enough for most applications; some employers ask for the number, and it is public record in most states. Never include your Social Security number.

Where do BLS and ACLS go on a nursing resume?

In a Certifications section with the issuing body and expiry year, and in your summary if the posting requires them.

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