Resume template for nursing school graduates

Leslie puts work experience directly under the summary, so a paid patient care technician job, the strongest proof a new graduate can offer, is read before the skills and degree. Its single touch of blue in the centred header looks finished while the rest of the page stays plain.

Second choice: Henrietta. Henrietta prints the BSN straight after the job and fits short clinical skills into a three-column grid; choose it if you have no healthcare job and the degree leads.

Leslie template details and test results

Leslie prints its sections in a fixed order, the same in the PDF and the Word file. Here is that order for this sample, and what to put in each section.

1. Professional Summary. Open with the graduation month and your NCLEX-RN status, because a recruiter cannot place a new graduate without them. Passing the NCLEX is usually the last step in licensure, so change this line the day your result arrives.
2. Work Experience. A paid patient care technician, CNA or unit secretary job is your best evidence. Give the unit type and patient load as a working nurse would, and keep tasks inside the scope you actually had.
3. Skills. Leslie prints labelled rows: clinical skills under Technical, the EHR and monitors under Tools. Mark anything you have done only under supervision, such as medication administration, honestly.
4. Education. BSN or ADN with the month you finished ("Expected" while still enrolled), then GPA if strong, the preceptorship unit and hours, and any evidence-based practice project. The full list of nursing courses can stay off.
5. Certifications. BLS with the issuer and year, plus a CNA or other credential you hold now. Once the board issues your RN license, it goes here with the state and into the headline.
6. Clinical rotations. Clinical rotations print last as a titled list: specialty, site and hours. Keep the preceptorship in education and the summary too, since it is your longest placement and the closest to the job.

The same content as the files above, so you can copy a line or compare it with your own.

Terms this kind of resume is usually searched for. Use the posting's exact wording, and only for work you have done.

• BSN
• NCLEX-RN
• new graduate nurse
• nurse residency program
• clinical rotations
• preceptorship
• patient care technician
• head-to-toe assessment
• vital signs
• 12-lead ECG
• Epic
• BLS
• patient education
• evidence-based practice

• Putting "RN" in the headline before your license is issued. Use "BSN, NCLEX-RN scheduled" or "BSN student" until then.
• Copying the nursing curriculum into the education entry. Recruiters know what a BSN covers; rotations and the preceptorship say more.
• Describing the patient care job in one vague line. Unit type, patient load and the tasks you were trusted with all count.
• Patient identifiers in any bullet, including room numbers or rare diagnoses tied to a date.

We exported this sample with Resumity's PDF exporter in Chrome on 2026-10-29 and read the file back with three open-source text extractors. This shows whether software that turns a PDF into text can recover it; it is not a test of any commercial applicant tracking system. How we test templates.

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1. National Council of State Boards of Nursing (NCSBN): NCLEX Pass Rates (Steps to licensure: graduate from a recognized nursing program, meet the state board of nursing requirements and pass the NCLEX for RNs or LPN/VNs; passing the NCLEX is usually the final step.)