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Emergency room nurse resume examples from 2025

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Updated March 26, 2025
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How to write an emergency room nurse resume

Craft a resume summary statement

Put a resume summary on the top of your resume to highlight your accomplishments. A resume summary sums up your experience and skills, making it easy for hiring managers to understand your qualifications at a glance. Here are some tips to write a strong, impressive resume summary:

Step 1: Mention your current job title or the role you're pursuing.

Step 2: Include your years of experience in emergency room nurse-related roles. Consider adding relevant company and industry experience as relevant to the job listing.

Step 3: Highlight your greatest accomplishments. Here is your chance to make sure your biggest wins aren't buried in your resume.

Step 4: Again, keep it short. Your goal is to summarize your experience and highlight your accomplishments, not write a paragraph.

These four steps should give you a strong elevator pitch and land you some emergency room nurse interviews.

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List the right project manager skills

Your Skills section is an easy way to let recruiters know you have the skills to do the job. Just as importantly, it can help your resume not get filtered out by hiring software. Here is how to make the most of your skills section and make sure you have the right keywords:

  1. You often need to include the exact keywords from the job description in your resume. Look at the job listing and consider which of the listed skills you have experience with, along with related skills.
  2. Include as many relevant hard skills and soft skills as possible from the listing.
  3. Use the most up to date and accurate terms. Don't forget to be specific.
These five steps should give you a strong elevator pitch and land you some emergency room nurse interviews.

Here are example skills to include in your “Area of Expertise” on an emergency room nurse resume:

  • Patients
  • BLS
  • Acls
  • Triage
  • Acute Care
  • TNCC
  • IV
  • Vital Signs
  • Life Support
  • Direct Patient Care
  • Critical Care
  • Compassion
  • Emergency Care
  • Allergies
  • Medical Equipment
  • Healthcare Professionals
  • Medical History
  • Medical Care
  • Patient Outcomes
  • Rehabilitation
  • CPR
  • Advanced Life Support
  • ICU
  • Quality Care
  • EKG
  • Home Health
  • Patient Education
  • Physician Orders
  • Hospital Policy
  • Emergency Situations

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How to structure your work experience

Your work experience should be structured:

  1. With your most recent roles first, followed by earlier roles in reverse chronological order.
  2. Job title, along with company name and location on the left.
  3. Put the corresponding dates of employment on the left side.
  4. Keep only relevant jobs on your work experience.

How to write emergency room nurse experience bullet points

Your resume is not a list of responsibilities or a job description. Instead, it is your chance to show your accomplishments and show why you're good at what you do.

  • Use the What, How, and Why format. Answering these questions turns a bland job description into an effective showcase of your abilities.
  • What were your responsibilities or goals?
  • How did you accomplish them?
  • Why were your results important? (How did it impact your company? Can you quantify the results in numbers? )

Here are examples from great emergency room nurse resumes:

Work history example #1

Telemetry Registered Nurse

Allina Health System

  • Assessed patients and family members learning needs, as well as documenting educational interventions.
  • Floated from Adult Medicine to Pediatrics and also Treatment nurse and In Basket message nurse.
  • Cared for post-operative Orthopedic surgery patients under the direction of Registered Nurse.
  • Delivered high standards of care and maintained patient satisfaction under strict time constraints.
  • Provided care to acute and chronic patients with various medical conditions including neuro-trauma patients.

Work history example #2

Emergency Room Nurse

Cypress Fairbanks Medical Center

  • Provided supervisory role on PRN basis.
  • Performed maternal evaluation, fetal assessment, postpartum care and support, prenatal education, infant feeding and family education.
  • Assessed patient's clinical conditions utilizing invasive and non-invasive equipment.
  • Provided lunch relief to staff, afternoon breaks and assumed a room at 3:00 p.m. until relieved at 7:30 p.m.
  • Stabilized patients through BLS, ACLS, PALS and TNCC protocols.

Work history example #3

Surgical Nurse

Medical

  • Administered medications and chemotherapy treatments to oncology patients as prescribed by physicians.
  • Instituted policies to enhance operations within a busy military unit, providing oversight to interns, residents and enlisted personnel.
  • Certified Oncology Nurse to care for adult hematology / oncology patients.
  • Improved unit capability with Oncology Certification and oriented to Mother Baby Unit for manpower assistance
  • Provided excellent nursing care to patients in a 24-bed medical-telemetry unit.

Work history example #4

General Duty Nurse

Winthrop-University Hospital

  • Provided individualized care for coronary artery bypass graft, valve replacement and thoracic surgical clients.
  • Completed training in advanced procedures and was a clinical coach for others BLS Instructor
  • Performed phlebotomy and CLIA waived lab testing Conducted monthly Basic Life Support (BLS) classes for friends and families of patients
  • Supervised patient care activities on a medical/surgical/telemetry floor including dispensing of medications and monitoring patient care performed by paraprofessional personnel.
  • Called MD with any concerns.

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Add an education section to your resume

Employers are looking for a few things when looking at the Education section of your resume:
  • The highest degree you have achieved.
  • TWhere you attended school, and the dates (Although if you graduated some time ago, leave the date off to avoid ageism)
  • TField of study
  • TAny honors, relevant coursework, achievements, or pertinent activities

Here are some examples of good education entries from emergency room nurse resumes:

Bachelor's Degree in nursing

Miami Dade College, Miami, FL

2005 - 2008

Associate's Degree in nursing

Grand Canyon University, Phoenix, AZ

2006 - 2008

Highlight your emergency room nurse certifications on your resume

Certifications can be a crucial part of your resume. Many jobs have required certifications.

Include the full name of the certification, along with the name of the issuing organization and date of obtainment.

If you have any of these certifications, be sure to include them on your emergency room nurse resume:

  1. Trauma Nursing Core Course (TNCC)
  2. Basic Life Support for Healthcare and Public Safety (BLS)
  3. Basic Life Support (BLS)
  4. Certified Emergency Nurse (CEN)
  5. Certified Nurse Assistant (CNA)
  6. Emergency Medical Technician (EMT)
  7. Family Nurse Practitioner
  8. Certified Nurse Technician (CNT)
  9. Legal Nurse Consultant Certified (LNCC)
  10. Family Nurse Practitioner (FNP)

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