Sample resume · fictional candidate
Nurse Resume Example
A sample resume for a registered staff nurse with three and a half years on a medical-surgical ward and a recent move to the ICU. Registration and certifications come straight after the summary, because nurse recruiters check them before anything else.
The sample, with notes
Anjali Thomas
Registered Nurse, Critical Care
Kochi, India · anjali.thomas@example.com · +91 90000 00000
Summary
Registered nurse (B.Sc. Nursing) with 5 years of inpatient experience: 3.5 years on a 32-bed medical-surgical ward and 18 months in a 12-bed medical ICU. Comfortable with ventilated patients, central lines and high-alert infusions. Charge-nurse cover on night shifts. Seeking an ICU staff nurse post in an accredited hospital.
Registration and certifications
- Registration: Registered Nurse and Registered Midwife, Kerala Nurses and Midwives Council · Reg. No. XXXXXX
- Life support: BLS and ACLS provider, valid to March 2027
- In-service: Infection prevention and control, hospital certificate, 2025
Clinical experience
Staff Nurse, Medical ICU
Apr 2025 – PresentMulti-specialty hospital (450 beds) · Kochi
- Care for 1–2 critically ill patients per shift in a 12-bed medical ICU, including ventilated and post-cardiac-arrest patients.
- Titrate vasopressor and sedation infusions to protocol and document hourly observations in the electronic record.
- Assist with central-line insertion and maintain lines to the unit’s infection-prevention bundle; the unit recorded no line infections in its last two quarterly audits.
- Precepted two newly joined nurses through their 6-week ICU orientation.
Staff Nurse, Medical-Surgical Ward
Aug 2021 – Mar 2025Teaching hospital (700 beds) · Thrissur
- Cared for 6–8 patients per day shift on a 32-bed ward with general medicine and post-operative patients.
- Covered charge nurse on about 40 night shifts: bed allocation, staffing gaps and escalation to the duty doctor.
- Helped move my shift team from paper charts to barcode medication administration and joined the audit of missed-dose reports before and after.
- Ran monthly fall-prevention refreshers after the ward’s fall audit and completed fall-risk assessments on every admission.
- Taught patients and families discharge medicines, wound care and diabetic foot care using teach-back.
Clinical skills
- Ventilator care (volume and pressure modes), arterial blood gas sampling
- Central and arterial line care, IV cannulation, blood transfusion
- High-alert medicine double-checks, barcode medication administration
- Pressure-injury prevention (Braden scale), wound care
- Electronic health records · Languages: Malayalam, English, Hindi
Education
- B.Sc. Nursing, Kerala · 2021
- Internship: rotations in medicine, surgery, paediatrics, obstetrics and community health
Where the numbers in a resume like this come from
The figures above are made up, but each is a kind of number you can look up. Before you put one on your resume, find it in one of these places. If you cannot, describe the scope instead.
| Number | Where to find it |
|---|---|
| Patients per shift | The unit roster or your shift handover sheets. |
| Unit size and patient mix | Bed count from the hospital; patient types from the unit’s admission profile. |
| Audit results (falls, pressure injuries, line infections) | Quality or infection-control audits shared in unit meetings. Write "the unit" when it was a team result. |
| Precepting and charge shifts | Roster records or your own log. Count them; do not guess. |
Adapting this example
- Applying in India: put your State Nursing Council registration and number at the top, and mention accreditation work (for example NABH audits) if your hospital went through it.
- Applying abroad: state where your registration with the destination regulator stands, exactly as it is, and any English test result. Never list a licence you have not been granted.
- New graduate: lead with clinical placements, listing ward type, weeks and procedures done under supervision.
- Leave out patient names and any detail that could identify a patient.