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Registered Nurse Resume Template

Hospital recruiters screen nursing resumes for license, unit experience, and certifications before anything else, and most health systems run applications through Workday, Taleo or iCIMS. This RN template puts licensure up front and keeps every field parse-safe.

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Layout: Classic

Health systems lean conservative. The Classic layout reads as formal and stays single-column so your license number and dates parse correctly.

Section order: Summary, Licenses and Certifications, Clinical Experience, Skills, Education. New grads should add clinical rotations as experience entries.

Maria Santos, RN

Registered Nurse, Telemetry

Phoenix, AZ · (555) 318-2290 · [email protected] · linkedin.com/in/mariasantosrn

Profile Summary

Registered nurse with 6 years of telemetry and med-surg experience in a 400-bed teaching hospital. Strong in cardiac monitoring, patient education, and precepting new graduates. Active Arizona RN license (compact).

Skills

Cardiac monitoring · Patient assessment · Medication administration · Epic EHR · Care planning · Patient and family education · IV therapy · Infection control · Rapid response · Precepting

Experience

Registered Nurse, Telemetry — Desert Valley Medical Center08/2020 – Present · Phoenix, AZ

• Manage 5 to 6 telemetry patients per shift on a 32-bed unit, escalating rhythm changes per protocol with zero missed alarms in the 2025 audit.

• Precepted 7 new graduate RNs through 12-week orientation; all completed on schedule.

• Co-led a discharge teaching project that cut 30-day heart failure readmissions on the unit from 21% to 16%.

• Charge nurse 1 to 2 shifts per week, balancing assignments for 8 RNs and 3 techs.

Registered Nurse, Med-Surg — St. Luke's Community Hospital06/2018 – 07/2020 · Mesa, AZ

• Cared for 5 to 7 post-surgical and medical patients per shift, documenting in Epic.

• Joined the unit falls committee; hourly rounding changes contributed to a 30% drop in falls over one year.

Education

Bachelor of Science in Nursing (BSN) — Arizona State University2018 · Phoenix, AZ
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How to fill in a registered nurse resume

Put licensure where it cannot be missed

State, license type, and status (for example, RN, Washington, active) belong near the top. Recruiters often filter on it before reading anything else. Include compact license status if you have it.

Name the unit, the ratio, and the population

Med-surg, ICU, ED, L&D and telemetry are different jobs. Say which unit, how many beds, your typical patient ratio, and the population you cared for.

List your EHR by name

Epic, Cerner (Oracle Health), Meditech. Hiring managers want to know your ramp-up time, and the ATS often searches for the system name.

Quantify quality, not just volume

Falls, CLABSI or CAUTI rates, HCAHPS scores, discharge teaching, or precepting new nurses. One or two of these beats a list of tasks every RN does.

Turn duties into results

Recruiters skim for outcomes. Rewrite task bullets with what changed and how you know.

Before

Took care of patients on a busy floor.

After

Managed 5 to 6 telemetry patients per shift on a 32-bed unit, escalating rhythm changes per protocol with zero missed alarms in annual audit.

Before

Helped train new nurses.

After

Precepted 7 new graduate RNs through 12-week orientation; all completed on schedule and 6 were still on the unit a year later.

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Keywords registered nurse postings ask for

Use the ones that are true for you, in context inside your bullets, not as a list at the bottom.

  • Registered Nurse
  • RN license
  • BLS
  • ACLS
  • PALS
  • Patient assessment
  • Medication administration
  • EHR (Epic, Cerner)
  • Care planning
  • Patient education
  • Telemetry
  • Med-surg
  • Infection control
  • Interdisciplinary collaboration

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Registered Nurse resume FAQ

Should I include my RN license number on my resume?

List license type, state and status. Many nurses leave the number off the resume and provide it on the application, which asks for it anyway. Either is acceptable.

How should a new grad nurse list clinical rotations?

Add each rotation as an entry with the unit, facility, hours, and two bullets on what you did. Put them above work history unrelated to healthcare.

What certifications should be on a nursing resume?

BLS is expected. Add ACLS, PALS, NRP, TNCC or specialty certifications such as CCRN or CEN when you hold them, with the issuing body and expiration month.

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