Nurse resume example
This CV is the document our Staff Nurse · Teal template produces — council registration directly under the name, skills as teal chips, wards described by bed count. The colour and chips are all CSS, so the page reads as plain text to a parser and scores 91/100 against our 30 published ATS rules. Here is what a ward manager takes from it in a first pass.
Measured by exporting this exact resume and running it through the 30 rules we publish. Certified: we only badge templates at 90 or above, a stricter bar than the 85 our checker calls interview-ready, so the design leaves headroom for your own content.
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The live document, not a screenshot. Names and employers are fictional.
Why these bullets work
Every line below is taken verbatim from the resume above.
“Care for 8 to 10 acute medical patients a shift, from admission to discharge, and lead the shift twice a week for a team of 10”
Caseload, ward type and the shift-lead duty. A ward manager reads it as someone who can be left in charge.
“Co-wrote the ward's pressure-ulcer care bundle; hospital-acquired incidence fell 40% in its first year”
A quality improvement with a measured result. Pressure-ulcer incidence is a metric the trust reports upward.
“Maintained a zero medication-error record for three years across 6,000 administrations a year”
The number of administrations makes zero mean something. Safety records without a denominator are just claims.
“Preceptor to 14 newly qualified nurses and 20 student placements; all preceptees passed their preceptorship”
Preceptorship is how wards grow their own staff; the pass rate says the mentoring worked.
Making it yours
- Swap the registration line under the header for your own NMC PIN and expiry date — recruiters and wards verify it before they read a single bullet, so it earns the top slot.
- Describe every ward by bed count and specialty the way this example does — '40-bed medical-surgical' places you faster than any adjective.
- Keep BLS and ACLS as bare acronyms in the certifications block; screening software matches the letters, not the spelled-out course names.
- Count what your shifts already produce: IV administrations per day, falls prevented, audits passed, students mentored — ward metrics beat duty lists.
Common questions
How should a staff nurse CV handle rotations and placements?
Give full bullets to your last two wards and compress earlier rotations to a line each. Ward type and bed count matter more than a complete list — this example carries two roles and still fits one page.
Where does my NMC PIN go?
On its own registration line directly under your name, with the expiry date — exactly where this example keeps it. Buried in a certifications list at the bottom, it slows down the one check every employer makes first.
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