Product Description

Even within the nursing field, there are a variety of positions, and this book shows samples of resumes and cover letters that worked for real people. This title will be a valuable resource to nursing professionals who seek clinical nursing or administrative positions. Newly minted nurses and newcomers to the field will learn how to show off their clinical rotations to best advantage. Nurses often change fields, too, and the book includes resumes of nurses who have successfully transitioned into pharmaceutical sales and other areas. A "bonus" of the this book is that it includes samples of paperwork involved in obtaining federal government jobs: there are specialized resumes as well as the "resumix" and KSAs often required for federal positions. This book will show nursing professionals how to maximize their career potential, get federal nursing positions, and change fields if they want to!

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #447832 in Books
• Published on: 2003-02
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 181 pages

Review
A splendid overview of what it takes to successfully manage a nursing career. -- Malinda Crawford, syndicated writer,June 2003

I found out how to show off my clinical rotations by using this book. -- Anne Guidry, nursing graduate, May 2003

I transitioned from nursing into pharmaceutical sales by using this book. -- Josh Cain, former nurse, July 2003

About the Author
Anne McKinney edits the distinguished Real-Resumes Series and Government Jobs Series published by PREP Publishing. She holds an MBA from the Harvard Business School and a BA in English from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

Customer Reviews

The best friend a nurse ever had!
When I got out of nursing school, I had clinical rotations and quite a lot of prior work experience unrelated to nursing. I had no clue about how to show that information on a resume. I actually heard about this book through an instructor at my school, and then I found it on Amazon. It is loaded with sample resumes for "beginners" like me, and every resume is shown with the cover letter that the job hunter used. This is the best how-to book resume preparation book for nursing professionals. The best part is that I can use it throughout my career because it contains lots of resumes and cover letters of experienced nursing professionals -- which I hope to be one day!

Great range of resume examples
I got this book from the library to help me write a resume for my new nursing career. I had plenty of experience not relevant to nursing and was having a hard time changing my resume to fit my new career. This book was oh-so-helpful as it had examples of resumes for new grads as well as career changers. Additionally, it gives examples for a variety of positions from clinical assistant to LPN to nurse anesthetist. It even gives an example of a cirriculum vitae (another form of resume.)

What you won't find in this book is how to write a resume. If you plan on using this book, you may also want to get a good book that gives the how-tos. By this I mean a book that gives the dos/don'ts, useful action verbs, how to target your resume, etc.

Overall, this book was most helpful and is worth investing in. You can use it from graduation through the course of your career.

Helpful Examples, Good Tips!
I first purchased this book when I was preparing to graduate from nursing school and was looking for my first R.N. job. I found the book to be well organized and had helpful tips in the front section. The tips are fairly basic, no revelations, but as a novice they helped me to focus my ideas and helped me out a few times when I was having writers block. It also helped me from letting my resume get to cluttered. The best thing about the book however is the examples. All the resumes in the book look professional and like a would expect a polished professional resume to look like. There were examples for specific areas and I relied quite a bit on the resumes that were examples for new graduates and for intensive care units. I likes this book much more thanResumes for Nursing Careers Which I didn't end up using much at all. I really appreciated that this book focused just on nursing, it helped me with the specifics of my resume. I am buying my second copy now as I prepare for grad school because I gave the previous copy to someone else. I recommend this!