Traveling nurse resume examples for 2025
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How to write a traveling 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: Start with your professional title, or the one you aspire to.
Step 2: Detail your years of experience in traveling nurse-related roles and your industry experience.
Step 3: What are your biggest professional wins? Here is your opportunity to highlight your strongest accomplishments by placing them at the start of your resume.
Step 4: Don't forget, your goal is to summarize your experience. Keep it short and sweet, so it's easy for recruiters to quickly understand why you're a great hire.
Hiring managers spend under a minute reviewing resumes on average. This means your summary needs to demonstrate your value quickly and show why you are the perfect fit for the traveling nurse position.Hi, I'm Zippi, your job search robot. Let me write a first draft of your summary statement.
List the right project manager skills
Use your Skills section to show you have the knowledge and technical ability to do the job. Here is how to make the most of your skills section and make sure you have the right keywords:
- 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.
- Include as many relevant hard skills and soft skills as possible from the listing.
- Use the most up to date and accurate terms. Don't forget to be specific.
Here are example skills to include in your “Area of Expertise” on a traveling nurse resume:
- Patients
- Acute Care
- Healthcare
- Acls
- Surgery
- Telemetry
- Med/Surg
- ICU
- PACU
- Oncology
- Patient Education
- Catheter
- Picu
- CVICU
- Patient Assessment
- Labor Delivery
- Discharge Planning
- Vital Signs
- Critical Care
- Home Health
- IV
- Travel Assignment
- EKG
- MICU
- CCU
- Triage
- PCU
- SICU
- Advanced Life Support
- Emergency Room
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How to structure your work experience
Next you should include your work experience. Structure your work experience section by listing your most recent experience first, followed by earlier roles in reverse chronological order.
Start with your job title, company name, city, and state on the left. Align dates in month and year format on the right-hand side.
Include only recent, relevant jobs. Avoid including work experience over 20 years to avoid ageism.
Beneath each job, you should have bullet points to emphasize why you're the perfect fit for the traveling nurse.
How to write traveling nurse experience bullet points
Your resume is your chance to show your biggest accomplishments. Don't just list your job responsibilities, instead take the opportunity to show why you're really good at what you do. Here is how you do that:
- Start with strong action verbs like managed, spearheaded, created, etc. Your goal is to show what you did and verbs will help demonstrate your contributions.
- Use numbers to quantify your achievements. Did you save time with a new report? Increase revenue? How large was the team you managed?
- Keep it concise. You're highlighting your achievements. Consider if all details you are sharing are relevant, or can be written more efficiently.
Here are effective examples from traveling nurse resumes:
Work history example #1
General Duty Nurse
Phoenix Children's Hospital
- Worked on the supervision of a Registered Nurse to administer care to pediatrics Medical-Surgical population.
- Worked in the hematology/ oncology outpatient clinic from 1995-2001.
- Maintained all competencies including ACLS certifications to care for medically complex patients requiring coronary care.
- Followed through with any and all orders concerning admitted patient that maybe be of stat nature by admitting physician.
- Launched 16 evidence-based high-risk maternal care plans resulting in successful Joint Commission site visit within designated clinical areas.
Work history example #2
Trauma Nurse
DaVita
- Maintained competency with all emergency operational procedures, and initiated CPR and emergency measures, as needed.
- Provided new and renewal BLS to employees, physicians, and community (Churches and The Houston Blind Society).
- Educated patient on rationale for Trendelenburg positioning and newborn phototherapy.
- Facilitated program management and data collection process during application for Level I trauma status.
- Responded to medical emergencies after obtaining ACLS certification and after completion of critical care course.
Work history example #3
Maternity Nurse
Methodist Hospital
- Researched and purchased all needed equipment: defibrillators, telemetry equipment, etc.
- Collaborated with management to identify learning needs of staff and planned development activities providing a knowledgeable and efficient staff.
- Worked specifically with the Texas Medical Foundation on clinical indicators for improving outcomes related congestive heart failure.
- Collaborated with ER Physicians, Speciality Physicians and other disciplinaries in planning and implementing patient care.
- Evaluated therapeutic effects of medications and treatments with implementation of effective interventions as needed in collaboration with physicians.
Work history example #4
Student Nurse
Smdc-Duluth Clinic
- Provided close monitoring of adults with critical pre- and post- heart catheterization, as well as chronic disease for arrhythmias.
- Gained experience in various hospital services, including Pulmonary, Neurology, Telemetry, Cardiac Step-Down, Medical/Surgical/Urology, and Orthopedics.
- Provided care for critically ill patients in the surgical and medical ICU and step-down units
- Worked with experienced RN, assumed total care for 6 patients under supervision of preceptor RN.
- Started IV's, dressing changes, CPR, administering medications, monitoring vital signs, changes in patient's condition.
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Add an education section to your resume
The education section should display your highest degree first.
Place your education section appropriately on your resume. If you graduated over 5 years ago, this section should be at the bottom of your resume. If you just graduated and lack relevant work experience, the education section should go to the top.
If you have a bachelor's or master's degree, do not list your high school education. If your graduation year is more than 15-20 years ago, it's better not to include dates in this section.
Here are some examples of good education entries for resumes:
Associate's Degree in nursing
Excelsior College, Albany, NY
2012 - 2014
Bachelor's Degree in nursing
University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, OH
2011 - 2014
Highlight your traveling nurse certifications on your resume
Certifications can be a crucial part of your resume. Many jobs have required certifications.
Start simple. Include the full name of the certification. It's also good to mention the organization that issued the certification. Next, specify when you obtained the certification.
If you have any of these certifications, be sure to include them on your traveling nurse resume:
- Basic Life Support for Healthcare and Public Safety (BLS)
- Trauma Nursing Core Course (TNCC)
- Certified Nurse Assistant (CNA)
- Adult, Pediatric and Neonatal Critical Care Nurses (CCRN)
- Legal Nurse Consultant Certified (LNCC)
- Family Nurse Practitioner
- Certified Nurse Educator (CNE)
- Certified Case Manager (ACM)
- Certified in Executive Nursing Practice (CENP)
- Certified Nurse Technician (CNT)