Nurse Practitioner resume examples for 2024

Nurse Practitioner resume format and sections

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   1. Add contact information to your nurse practitioner resume

   Your name should be the biggest text on the page and be at or near the top of the document. Your address doesn't need to include your street name or house number - listing your city and state works just fine. Your email address should be professional, but not your current work email address. It's not a good look to use your work email for personal projects (job-searching). Your social media can be included if you have a fully-fledged LinkedIn page or another social media page that showcases your relevant skill set.

   Nurse Practitioner Resume Contact Information Example #1

   Hank Rutherford Hill

   St. Arlen, Texas | 333-111-2222 | hank.hill@gmail.com

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   2. Add relevant education to your nurse practitioner resume

   Your resume's education section should include:

   • The name of your school
   • The date you graduated (Month, Year or Year are both appropriate)
   • The name of your degree

   If you graduated more than 15 years ago, you should consider dropping your graduation date to avoid age discrimination.

   Optional subsections for your education section include:

   • Academic awards (Dean's List, Latin honors, etc. )
   • GPA (if you're a recent graduate and your GPA was 3.5+)
   • Extra certifications
   • Academic projects (thesis, dissertation, etc. )

   Other tips to consider when writing your education section include:

   • If you're a recent graduate, you might opt to place your education section above your experience section
   • The more work experience you get, the shorter your education section should be
   • List your education in reverse chronological order, with your most recent and high-ranking degrees first
   • If you haven't graduated yet, you can include "Expected graduation date" to the entry for that school

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   Majors

   Nursing

   79.5%

   Family Practice Nursing

   7.2%

   Nursing Science

   2.9%

   Biology

   1.8%

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   Nurse Practitioner Resume Relevant Education Example #1

   Master's Degree In Nursing 2008 - 2009

   University of Massachusetts Boston Boston, MA

   Nurse Practitioner Resume Relevant Education Example #2

   Master's Degree In Nursing 2010 - 2011

   Miami Dade College Miami, FL

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   3. Next, create a nurse practitioner skills section on your resume

   Your resume's skills section should include the most important keywords from the job description, as long as you actually have those skills. If you haven't started your job search yet, you can look over resumes to get an idea of what skills are the most important.

   Here are some tips to keep in mind when writing your resume's skills section:

   • Include 6-12 skills, in bullet point form
   • List mostly hard skills; soft skills are hard to test
   • Emphasize the skills that are most important for the job

   Hard skills are generally more important to hiring managers because they relate to on-the-job knowledge and specific experience with a certain technology or process.

   Soft skills are also valuable, as they're highly transferable and make you a great person to work alongside, but they're impossible to prove on a resume.

   Example of skills to include on an nurse practitioner resume

   • Acute Care Skills.
      

     The branch of secondary healthcare which is responsible for giving short-term care to patients recovering from severe injuries or urgent medical problems is known as acute care. Acute care comprises multiple domains like; emergency care, urgent care, short-term stabilization, pre-hospital care, critical care, and trauma care.

   • Urgent Care Skills.
      

     Urgent care provides assistance to patients on an immediate basis. Although the problems requiring this swift attention are not life threatening, if not seen to it immediately, they may become a bigger problem. Therefore, time plays a crucial role in such situations.

   • Health Promotion Skills.
      

     Health promotion refers to programs aimed at engaging and empowering individuals to select healthy behaviors.

   Top Skills for a Nurse Practitioner

   Patients, 28.7%
   Diagnosis, 6.6%
   Home Health, 5.5%
   Diagnostic Tests, 5.4%
   Other Skills, 53.8%
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   4. List your nurse practitioner experience

   The most important part of any resume for a nurse practitioner is the experience section. Recruiters and hiring managers expect to see your experience listed in reverse chronological order, meaning that you should begin with your most recent experience and then work backwards.

   Don't just list your job duties below each job entry. Instead, make sure most of your bullet points discuss impressive achievements from your past positions. Whenever you can, use numbers to contextualize your accomplishments for the hiring manager reading your resume.

   It's okay if you can't include exact percentages or dollar figures. There's a big difference even between saying "Managed a team of nurse practitioners" and "Managed a team of 6 nurse practitioners over a 9-month project. "

   Most importantly, make sure that the experience you include is relevant to the job you're applying for. Use the job description to ensure that each bullet point on your resume is appropriate and helpful.

   What experience really stands out on Nurse Practitioner resumes?

   Pam Fifer

   College of Nursing, George Fox University

   Experiences demonstrating flexibility, resilience, communication, and clinical judgment.

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   Work History Example # 1

   Clinical Research Assistant

   Celerion

   • Authored multiple investigator initiated protocols, ICFs, CRFs and associated documents.
   • Developed Case Report Form (CRF) and review Serious Adverse Event (SAE) Reports for clinical sites.
   • Maintained excel database, emailed correspondences to sites and tracked and documented incoming responses for the soft trial IRB project.
   • Prepared documentation for IRB submission.
   • Retrieved CRFs or lock eCRFs after data has been source verified and all queries have been resolved.

   Work History Example # 2

   Nurse Practitioner

   Massachusetts Institute of Technology

   • Provided routine medical care to adults in a busy Internal Medicine and Endocrinology practice.
   • Acted as a Charge RN, supervising nurses and ancillary staff in a 25 bed unit.
   • Performed health assessments on patients of various ages & clinic diagnosis.
   • Functioned as a preceptor for both RNs and Nursing students.
   • Worked until early 2006 in a part-time and flex-time capacity employed as a Family Nurse Practitioner (FNP).

   Work History Example # 3

   Registered Field Nurse

   Mount Sinai Health System

   • Assisted in the orientation of residents/interns to unit operations, policies, procedures, and institutional protocols.
   • Provided comprehensive out patient clinical nursing care to patients ranging in age newborn to geriatric.
   • Provided emotional support and education for new parents and strongly promoted skin-to-skin contact, breastfeeding, and maternal/paternal infant bonding.
   • Worked as a staff nurse in the medical oncology unit when needed.
   • Served as clinical nurse and charge nurse in medicine and telemetry by providing quality care to patients and their families.

   Work History Example # 4

   Registered Professional Nurse

   Alvarado Hospital

   • Registered Nurse MICU/Neuro ICU I started at AMCH as a Phlebotomist in 2000.
   • Worked with newborn infants..
   • Worked as a clinical preceptor for RN-BSN student for two semesters.
   • Learned all the RN and PCT roles for the Endo unit: Pre-op, OR, Post-op, decontamination area.
   • Managed caseload of 6 to 8 patients on various med/surg units

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   5. Highlight nurse practitioner certifications on your resume

   Specific nurse practitioner certifications can be a powerful tool to show employers you've developed the appropriate skills.

   If you have any of these certifications, make sure to put them on your nurse practitioner resume:

   1. Family Nurse Practitioner
   2. Adult Nurse Practitioner (ANP-BC)
   3. Family Nurse Practitioner (FNP)
   4. Acute Care Nurse Practitioner (ACNP-BC)
   5. Certified Nurse Technician (CNT)
   6. Adult-Gerontology Primary Care Nurse Practitioner (AGPCNP-BC)
   7. Medical Examiner Certification
   8. Certified Nurse Educator (CNE)
   9. Adult, Pediatric and Neonatal Critical Care Nurses (CCRN)
   10. Gerontological Nurse Practitioner

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   6. Finally, add an nurse practitioner resume summary or objective statement

   A resume summary statement consists of 1-3 sentences at the top of your nurse practitioner resume that quickly summarizes who you are and what you have to offer. The summary statement should include your job title, years of experience (if it's 3+), and an impressive accomplishment, if you have space for it.

   Remember to emphasize skills and experiences that feature in the job description.

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