<\/span><\/h3>\nWhen you start listing out your work history, be sure to list every single facility you have worked for in travel nursing. It is not necessary to include work history that does not pertain specifically to travel nursing. We think it\u2019s awesome that you bartend on the weekends, but your travel nurse resume does not have space for it UNLESS they provide a quality reason for a gap in travel nursing employment.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\nWhen listing facilities be sure to include the full name, start and end dates, your specific position, trauma level, teaching hospital credential, number of beds, acuity, and the electronic medical record type.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<\/span>3 – <\/span>Specialty Specific Information<\/b><\/span><\/h3>\nThere are definitely specialty positions that are harder to find, tougher to keep, and even more difficult to snag than others in the travel nursing world, so ensuring that you include all of your specialty specific information that qualifies you above and beyond other candidates is absolutely pertinent. Be sure to include exact experiences on\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n\n- Specialty units<\/span><\/li>\n
- Your specific role on the unit<\/span><\/li>\n
- Any certifications that are pertinent to your specialty, and\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n
- A reference from a charge nurse or above that you worked with.\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
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<\/span>4 – <\/span>Education<\/b><\/span><\/h3>\nYou will want to include all of your education on your travel nurse resume starting with your college education and continuing with each school you attended after. You do not need to include your GPAs or anything of that nature. Your degrees earned from each individual institution, dates of attendance at each individual institution, and the location including the city and the state for each individual institution is just right. If you graduated with any special honors, you will want to be sure to include those as well.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<\/span>5 – <\/span>Professional Affiliations<\/b><\/span><\/h3>\nA professional affiliation can signify that you take being deeply involved in the profession of nursing very seriously. There are different ways to be involved in professional affiliations and different ways to express which ones you are involved in on a resume. If you participate in any boards or forums at your facility, that is important to note.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\nIf you are associated with a state association or legislative body that is something you can include if you wish, too. If you are actively working in any organization to improve policy, safety, or competence in the profession of nursing you should list it here.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<\/span>6 – <\/span>Employment Gaps<\/b><\/span><\/h3>\nThis one is actually really important, even though it might seem like you are tattling on yourself. Here\u2019s the deal, most employers will find out about an employment gap anyway and not all of them really care that much. Trying to hide it is way more detrimental to your chances of getting a job than just being honest about taking time off for a holiday, or vacation, or health concern, etc.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\nBy including these in your travel nurse resume, you have an excellent opportunity to explain why these gaps occurred–most likely relieving any concern by a potential boss <\/span>and ensuring that when they run a background check, there aren’t any holes that will slow the process down.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/span>7 – <\/span>Desire to Work at that Facility\u00a0<\/b><\/span><\/h3>\nAt the top of every travel nurse resume you have an opportunity to list a mission statement or personal statement expressing your intention for the entire resume and the facility and people who are receiving it. If you are able to, include a tiny snippet that is very unique to the specific facility you are applying to will go really far in showing them your true dedication and desire to work at that facility. Keep this statement limited to<\/span> one sentence <\/b>if you can.<\/span><\/p>\n
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