Key takeaways
- A nursing resume is read for the license first, then the setting: unit type, beds, population, assignment size and system. Give each its own clear place.
- New graduates list clinical rotations as experience, with the unit, the hours and what they did. Honest scope beats a long skills list.
- Write patient care at the level of a population or a unit, never a person. No names, dates of service, room numbers or rare cases.
- Four complete example resumes are written out below: a new graduate RN, an ICU RN, a travel RN and an LPN, plus a CNA excerpt. The people, hospitals and numbers are made up.
In this guide
- What a nursing resume has to show
- Where licenses and certifications go
- Four example resumes
- Stating units, beds and ratios honestly
- Writing about your work without writing about a patient
- Skills and certifications
- Bullets that show nursing
- Finding the keywords in a nursing posting
- Tailoring by setting
- Common mistakes and a final checklist
- Where SnugCV fits
- Keep going
A nursing resume gets read in a particular order. First comes the license, because in most postings it is a requirement. Then the setting: what kind of unit, how many beds, what kind of patients, how many at a time, and which system you documented in. Last comes the part writers usually put first, the adjectives about compassion. For an experienced nurse the setting carries most of the weight, and for a new graduate it is where honesty matters most.
This guide gives you four complete example resumes written out as text, for a new graduate RN, an experienced ICU nurse, a travel nurse and an LPN, plus a short CNA excerpt. After each is a note on why it works. The rest of the guide covers where licenses and certifications go, how to state units and ratios honestly, and how to describe your work without describing a patient. Every person, hospital and number in the examples is made up. If you want the method for pulling words out of a posting first, start with how to find the keywords in a job description.
What a nursing resume has to show
A hiring manager or a recruiter is looking for a short list of facts, and each one has a natural home on the page.
The gate
The license and status
Type, state or compact status, whether it is active, and the expiration date. Shown in the header credentials and again in a labeled block.
Where and how
The setting
Unit type, bed count, population, typical assignment size, shift pattern, the electronic record system you used.
What you can do
Skills and certifications
Assessments, medication administration, devices and protocols, plus the certifications the unit expects, with dates.
Nursing postings are also unusually literal. Where a marketing posting is full of soft phrases, a nursing posting says medical-surgical, telemetry, 32 beds, BLS required, Epic. Your resume should be literal in the same way.
Where licenses and certifications go
Put licenses and certifications in their own labeled block directly under the summary, and put your most important credentials after your name in the header. A common order after the name is highest degree, then license, then certifications, such as BSN, RN, CCRN, though employers differ and your own state or employer may have its own style.
Header
Maya Torres
Summary
Skills
Experience
Education
- 1Name, then credentials: the degree, the license and any national certification you want read first.
- 2Contact line: city and state, email and phone. A street address is not needed.
- 3Below the summary, a labeled block lists each license and certification in full, with its status and expiration date.
For each license or certification, write the type, the state or issuing body and the status or expiry. Use the words your state board and certifying bodies use.
| Item | A clear way to write it | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| RN license | Registered Nurse, State of Wisconsin: active, expires Feb 2028 | Name the state. Add multistate only if your license is |
| LPN or LVN license | Licensed Practical Nurse, State of Kentucky: active, expires 2027 | The title differs by state: California and Texas use LVN |
| Exam passed | NCLEX-RN: passed, June 2026 | Useful for a new graduate. Optional later |
| Life support | Basic Life Support (BLS), American Heart Association, expires Mar 2028 | List the provider your employer accepts |
| Specialty life support | ACLS, PALS, NRP, TNCC | Only the ones you hold, each with an expiry |
| Specialty certification | CCRN, CEN, CMSRN | List the issuing body and the date. Never list a lapsed one as active |
| Compact license | Home state RN license (multistate), active | Only if your license record says so |
Some states belong to a licensure compact that lets a nurse who lives in a participating state hold one multistate license, and the details are on the Nurse Licensure Compact site. Whether your license is multistate, and what it covers, depends on your state and your license record, so check yours and state it as it is written there. Postings often name a state or ask about compact status, and the licenses block is where a recruiter will look.
Four example resumes
Each example is written the way you could type it into a word processor, with the licenses and certifications in a block under the summary.
Example 1: new graduate RN
Example 1: new graduate RN (made-up person, hospital and numbers)
Priya Raman, BSN, RN
Milwaukee, WI · priya.raman@example.com · (555) 010-0301
SUMMARY
New graduate registered nurse with 720 clinical hours across medical-surgical, telemetry, pediatric and community health rotations, and a capstone preceptorship on a 28-bed cardiac step-down unit. Comfortable with head-to-toe assessment, medication administration and electronic documentation, and with teaching patients and families at discharge. Applying to new graduate residency programs in medical-surgical and telemetry units.
LICENSES AND CERTIFICATIONS
- Registered Nurse, State of Wisconsin: active, issued June 2026
- NCLEX-RN: passed, June 2026
- Basic Life Support (BLS), American Heart Association, expires Mar 2028
EDUCATION
Bachelor of Science in Nursing, Ridgeview State University, May 2026. Graduated cum laude.
CLINICAL EXPERIENCE (BSN program, 720 hours in total)
Capstone preceptorship, Cardiac Step-Down Unit, Mercer Valley Medical Center, 28 beds (Jan to May 2026, 216 hours)
- Followed a preceptor's full schedule and built from one patient to a full four-patient assignment over 12 weeks, under supervision.
- Completed head-to-toe assessments, administered oral and IV medications using barcode scanning, and documented in Epic.
- Gave SBAR handoff reports at shift change and escalated changes in vital signs to the preceptor and charge nurse.
- Taught medications, activity limits and warning signs to patients and families at discharge, using teach-back.
Medical-Surgical rotation, Mercer Valley Medical Center, 36 beds (Aug to Dec 2025, 144 hours)
- Provided care for two to three adult patients per shift, including post-operative monitoring, wound care and mobility.
Community health rotation, Westfield Community Center (Jan to Mar 2025, 96 hours)
- Ran blood pressure checks and gave nutrition and medication-adherence teaching to adults at a weekly clinic, under faculty supervision.
Additional rotations: pediatrics (120 hours), maternal-newborn (72 hours), mental health (72 hours).
OTHER EXPERIENCE
Patient Care Technician, Mercer Valley Medical Center, 40-bed medical-surgical unit (Jun 2024 to Aug 2025, part-time)
- Took vital signs, helped patients with mobility and daily care, recorded intake and output, and reported changes to the nurse.
- Followed falls prevention and infection control practices on a unit of 40 beds.
SKILLS
- Clinical: head-to-toe assessment, medication administration, IV care under supervision, wound care, discharge teaching
- Communication: SBAR handoff, interdisciplinary rounds, teach-back
- Systems: Epic, barcode medication administration
What makes it work: the setting is specific (28 beds, step-down, preceptorship) and the hours are given as the program recorded them. The preceptorship bullets show progression, from one patient to four, which is more believable than a claim of full independence. The patient care technician job is kept because it is real patient contact on a unit, and it is described in tasks that fit that role. The skills list is short, and each entry is backed by a line above it.
Example 2: experienced ICU nurse
Example 2: experienced RN (made-up person, hospitals and numbers)
Rebecca Torres, BSN, RN, CCRN
Nashville, TN · rebecca.torres@example.com · (555) 010-0318
SUMMARY
Critical care RN with seven years in adult units, the last four in a 24-bed medical-surgical ICU at a 600-bed teaching hospital. Cares for ventilated patients and patients on vasoactive infusions and continuous renal replacement therapy, works as relief charge nurse, and precepts new hires. Member of the unit's practice council.
LICENSES AND CERTIFICATIONS
- Registered Nurse, State of Tennessee: active, expires Aug 2027
- Critical Care Registered Nurse (CCRN), AACN: active through Dec 2028
- Advanced Cardiovascular Life Support (ACLS), expires Jan 2028
- Basic Life Support (BLS), American Heart Association, expires Jan 2028
EXPERIENCE
Staff Nurse and Relief Charge Nurse, Medical-Surgical ICU, Mercer Valley Medical Center (600 beds), Nashville, TN (Jul 2022 to present)
- Care for one to two critically ill adults per shift, including patients on mechanical ventilation, vasoactive infusions and continuous renal replacement therapy.
- Serve as relief charge nurse about six shifts a month: assign patients, coordinate admissions and transfers across 24 beds, and respond first to rapid response calls.
- Precepted eight new hires through 12-week orientations, all of whom completed sign-off on schedule.
- Co-led a unit early mobility project with physical therapy and respiratory therapy. Pressure injuries on the unit fell from 11 to 6 cases over the year (unit quality report).
- Document in Epic and lead bedside handoff reports in SBAR format.
Registered Nurse, Cardiac Telemetry Unit, Oakmont Health System (32 beds), Nashville, TN (Jun 2019 to Jun 2022)
- Cared for four to five adult patients per shift, interpreting telemetry rhythms and administering IV medications and protocol-driven infusions.
- Completed ACLS and a critical care orientation, then transferred to the ICU after three years.
- Taught discharge medication and activity plans to patients and families after cardiac procedures.
EDUCATION
Bachelor of Science in Nursing, Brightwater University, 2019
SKILLS
- Critical care: ventilator management, vasoactive infusions, continuous renal replacement therapy, rapid response
- Leadership: relief charge nurse, preceptor, practice council member
- Systems: Epic, bedside monitoring, infusion pump programming
What makes it work: the summary states the unit, bed count, hospital size and the three advanced skills a critical care posting is likely to ask about. The assignment is written as a range, one to two patients, because ICU assignments change with acuity. The one measurable result is unit-level, stated with its source, and it names her own part (co-led). A nurse who uses unit data should check the employer's policy first, since some hospitals restrict what staff may publish.
Example 3: travel nurse, emergency department
Example 3: travel RN (made-up person, agency, hospitals and numbers)
Omar Khalil, BSN, RN, CEN
Boise, ID · omar.khalil@example.com · (555) 010-0345 · Available from January 2027
SUMMARY
Emergency department travel RN with eight years in the ED, including six assignments at community hospitals of 18 to 60 beds. Floats between triage, acute and fast-track areas, and learns a new electronic record system in the first week. Has extended three assignments at the facility's request.
LICENSES AND CERTIFICATIONS
- Registered Nurse, home state license (multistate): active, expires Apr 2028
- Two additional state licenses: active (states listed on request)
- Certified Emergency Nurse (CEN), BCEN: active through 2029
- TNCC, Emergency Nurses Association: expires 2027
- ACLS and PALS: expire 2027; BLS, American Heart Association: expires 2027
EXPERIENCE
Travel Registered Nurse, Emergency Department, Bridgeline Medical Staffing, agency (Mar 2023 to present)
- Larkspur General Hospital, Emergency Department, 40 beds, Bend, OR (Aug 2026 to present, extended once)
- Silverbrook Medical Center, Emergency Department, 60 beds, Reno, NV (Apr to Jul 2026)
- Redwood Community Hospital, Emergency Department, 18 beds, Eureka, CA (Dec 2025 to Mar 2026)
- Three earlier assignments, 2023 to 2025, in EDs of 24 to 52 beds (details on request)
Across assignments:
- Care for four to five patients at a time across triage, acute care and fast track, adults and children.
- Learned each facility's electronic record system, including Epic and Meditech, within the first week of the assignment.
- Give and receive SBAR handoff reports with EMS, inpatient units and transfer centers.
- Float to the resuscitation bay under facility policy and take the charge role when asked.
Staff Nurse, Emergency Department, Gem State Regional Hospital (32 beds), Boise, ID (Jun 2018 to Feb 2023)
- Triaged and treated adults and children, rotated through charge duties, and precepted new hires.
- Served on the department's trauma response team.
EDUCATION
Bachelor of Science in Nursing, Northgate University, 2018
What makes it work: the agency is the employer and each facility is a line beneath it, with unit, beds, city and dates, because recruiters read for facility types and bed sizes. Older assignments collapse into one line, which keeps the page short and invites the question. Dates are exact, and an extension is marked as an extension. The resume gives the availability date in the header, a practical detail for a travel resume. Assignments often run about 13 weeks, but yours may differ, and the dates on the page should be the dates you worked.
Example 4: LPN in long-term care, and a CNA excerpt
Example 4: LPN (made-up person, facility and numbers)
Denise Carter, LPN
Louisville, KY · denise.carter@example.com · (555) 010-0362
SUMMARY
Licensed practical nurse with five years in skilled nursing and rehabilitation, caring for long-stay and short-stay residents on a 45-bed unit. Experienced in medication passes, treatments, wound care and documentation for care plans, and in guiding nursing assistants and keeping families informed. Interested in an outpatient clinic role.
LICENSES AND CERTIFICATIONS
- Licensed Practical Nurse, State of Kentucky: active, expires 2027
- Basic Life Support (BLS), American Heart Association, expires 2027
- Certified Nursing Assistant (CNA), state nurse aide registry: held 2019 to 2021
EXPERIENCE
Licensed Practical Nurse, Maple Court Rehabilitation and Care Center (120 beds), Louisville, KY (Mar 2021 to present)
- Care for 18 to 22 residents on the day shift of a 45-bed unit, passing medications, giving treatments and documenting in the facility's electronic record system.
- Perform wound care and dressing changes for residents on the unit's wound list and report changes in wound status to the RN supervisor.
- Monitor vital signs and report changes in condition to the RN or physician using SBAR.
- Contribute to care plan updates and attend care plan meetings with residents and families.
- Direct the work of three to four nursing assistants per shift as delegated by the RN supervisor.
- Call families about changes in condition, appointments and care plan meetings.
Certified Nursing Assistant, Maple Court Rehabilitation and Care Center, Louisville, KY (Jun 2019 to Feb 2021)
- Assisted 8 to 10 residents per shift with bathing, dressing, eating and mobility, and reported changes to the nurse.
EDUCATION
Practical Nursing Diploma, Ridgeline Technical College, 2021
CNA resume excerpt (made-up person and numbers)
Tomás Rivera, CNA
CERTIFICATIONS
- Certified Nursing Assistant (CNA), state nurse aide registry: active through 2027
- Basic Life Support (BLS), American Red Cross, expires 2027
EXPERIENCE
Certified Nursing Assistant, Willow Bend Senior Living, memory care unit of 24 residents (Feb 2024 to present)
- Assist residents with bathing, dressing, eating and mobility, using lift equipment and safe transfer techniques.
- Take and record vital signs, and report changes in mood, appetite or skin to the nurse promptly.
- Follow each resident's care plan and the unit's routines for a population that needs a consistent day.
What makes it work: an LPN resume lives in the details of the setting, which is why the unit size, resident count and delegation are all written out. The license line uses the exact title the state uses, and the work history shows the path from CNA to LPN without commentary. Scope of practice for LPNs, including tasks such as IV therapy, differs by state and often by employer, so list only what your license and your employer allow and what you have actually done. The CNA excerpt follows the same logic: the credential and the registry first, then tasks described by the care they give.
Stating units, beds and ratios honestly
A nursing resume is judged largely on how the setting is described. The details a reader wants are below. Give each one as you experienced it, because a unit's brochure and your own assignment can differ.
| Detail | An example | Where it comes from |
|---|---|---|
| Unit type | Cardiac telemetry, medical-surgical, emergency department | Your assignment |
| Beds | 32-bed unit | The unit, or the hospital's public description |
| Population | Adults after cardiac procedures, adolescents on an oncology unit | Your assignment |
| Typical assignment | Four to five patients per shift | What you carried most days |
| Role | Staff nurse, relief charge, preceptor | Your actual duties |
| System and devices | Epic, barcode medication administration, infusion pumps | What you actually used |
Ratios vary by shift, unit, hospital and state, so give the range you carried rather than the number the unit was designed for. If your assignment changed with acuity, a range such as one to two patients is the honest and the believable way to say it.
Before
Cared for patients in a busy hospital.
After
Cared for four to five adult patients per shift on a 32-bed cardiac telemetry unit, with continuous rhythm monitoring and IV medication infusions.
Unit type, bed count, assignment size and the main care activities replace an adjective.
Before
Managed patient care.
After
Completed shift assessments, administered medications and updated the plan of care in Epic for a full assignment of four patients.
Managed hides the actions. Name them and the system.
Before
Educated patients.
After
Taught patients and families about medications, activity limits and warning signs at discharge, using teach-back.
The topics and the method show how you taught.
Writing about your work without writing about a patient
You can show what you did without telling any patient's story. In the United States, health information privacy is governed by HIPAA, and an employer can have stricter rules. Identifiers go well beyond a name: dates tied to a patient, a room number, a small place, a rare condition or an unusual story can identify someone, even with no name attached.
Before
Saved Mr. Alvarez in room 12 when he coded on 3/14.
After
Recognized early deterioration, called a rapid response and took part in the resuscitation as a team member, then completed the debrief and documentation.
The story is the patient's. The after line shows your actions and your role.
Before
Cared for a 19-year-old with leukemia at my hospital's oncology floor.
After
Cared for adolescents and young adults receiving chemotherapy on a 20-bed oncology unit.
A population and a unit, with no age, no diagnosis for one person and no timeline.
Before
Kept all my patients free of pressure injuries.
After
Completed skin assessments each shift and turned at-risk patients on schedule. Unit pressure injuries fell from 11 to 6 cases over the year (unit quality report).
A practice you control and a unit result with its source. The before line claims an outcome that no single nurse controls.
Do
- Write about a population, a unit or a protocol
- Describe what you did and the system you used
- Quote unit data only with its source, and check your employer's policy first
- Keep stories for the interview, told without names, dates or places
- Use your own actions as the subject of the sentence
Avoid
- Include names, initials, room numbers or dates of service
- Pair a rare diagnosis with a place or a time
- Describe a single patient's outcome as your result
- Share a photo, a chart image or a document from work
- Quote hospital-wide numbers you were not told you could use
Skills and certifications
A nursing skills section should be short and literal. Use the postings you are applying to as the source for names, and list only what you do. Certifications go in the block under the summary, not in the skills list, with a date.
Clinical skills (list those you actually perform)
- Head-to-toe assessment
- Medication administration
- IV therapy and site care
- Wound care
- Telemetry monitoring
- Catheter care
- Post-operative care
- Falls prevention
- Infection control
- Discharge teaching
- Care planning
Communication and teamwork
- SBAR handoff
- Teach-back
- Interdisciplinary rounds
- Family communication
- Delegation to nursing assistants
- Precepting
- Charge nurse duties
Systems and devices (name what you used)
- Epic
- Meditech
- Barcode medication administration
- Infusion pumps
- Bedside monitoring
- Ventilator management
- Lift equipment
Certifications often requested (list only the ones you hold, with dates, in the licenses block)
- BLS
- ACLS
- PALS
- NRP
- TNCC
- CEN
- CCRN
- CMSRN
Skills to put on a resume has more by field.
Bullets that show nursing
A strong nursing bullet names an action, the setting it happened in, the method and, when you have one, a result that belongs to a group or a unit. Here is a line from Rebecca's resume, split into its parts.
- 1
Co-led
Role
Says how much of the work was yours. Co-led is honest when you shared it.
- 2
a unit early mobility project with physical therapy and respiratory therapy
Project
The scope, and the teams involved. A reader sees collaboration without a soft-skill phrase.
- 3
Pressure injuries on the unit fell from 11 to 6 cases over the year
Result
A before, an after and a time frame, owned by a unit. If you have no number, describe the change in practice instead.
- 4
(unit quality report)
Source
A number with a source is easy to trust. Check your employer's policy before you publish unit data.
For more patterns, see resume bullet points, and for verbs that fit clinical work, resume action verbs.
Finding the keywords in a nursing posting
Nursing postings are specific, so extracting keywords is mostly a matter of reading carefully. Here is a made-up posting excerpt with the candidates highlighted.
Job posting excerpt (made up for this guide)
Registered Nurse, Medical-Surgical Unit, Cedar Basin Regional Hospital
Provide direct care for four to five adult patients on a 32-bed medical-surgical unit. Perform assessments, administer medications and document in Epic. Lead bedside shift report and teach patients and families about discharge plans. Support falls prevention and infection control practices. Active RN license and BLS required. ACLS preferred. BSN preferred.
| Phrase in the posting | Type | What to check |
|---|---|---|
| Active RN license | Gate | License, state and status, in the block |
| BLS required | Gate | Certification with an expiry date |
| Four to five patients, 32-bed medical-surgical | Setting | Whether your assignment size and unit match, and what to emphasize |
| Assessments, medications, Epic | Core duties | A bullet for each, written with your real tools |
| Bedside shift report | Method | Handoff reports you gave, in the format your unit used |
| Patient and family teaching | Duty | Topics and the method you used |
| ACLS preferred, BSN preferred | Preference | List if you hold it. If not, apply on the rest |
The first two lines are gates. The rest are the setting and the duties. If you are a few years in telemetry and the posting is medical-surgical, say what is shared and what you have done, and let the interview fill in the rest. For the full sorting method, see how to tailor your resume to a job posting.
Tailoring by setting
The same nursing history reads differently for different units. The facts stay the same, and the emphasis moves.
| Setting | Postings tend to stress | Move up on your resume |
|---|---|---|
| Medical-surgical | Time management, assessments, discharge teaching, falls prevention | Assignment size, discharge teaching, handoff |
| Telemetry or step-down | Rhythm interpretation, cardiac medications, ACLS | Telemetry monitoring, ACLS, infusions |
| ICU | Ventilators, infusions, titration, rapid response | Devices, acuity, charge and precepting |
| Emergency | Triage, rapid assessment, flexibility, TNCC | Triage, trauma response, floating, certifications |
| Pediatrics | Family communication, age-based dosing, PALS | Family teaching, PALS, populations by age |
| Long-term care | Medication passes, wound care, delegation, family contact | Resident count, delegation, care plans |
| Clinic and outpatient | Patient education, scheduling flow, triage by phone | Teaching, documentation, telephone triage |
| Travel | Fast orientation, flexibility, specific units | Assignment list, systems used, floating |
A short cover letter is a good place for the part a resume cannot say, such as why a move from long-term care to a clinic makes sense. How to write a tailored cover letter covers the format.
Common mistakes and a final checklist
Do
- Put the license, status and expiry where a screener finds it in seconds
- State unit type, beds, population and assignment size for every job
- List clinical rotations as experience, with hours and what you did
- Use the system and device names you actually used
- Keep every line free of patient detail
Avoid
- List a certification that has lapsed as if it were active
- State a ratio or a result you cannot back
- List tasks your license or your state does not allow you to do
- Open with a paragraph about compassion and a calling
- Add a photo, a graphic or a skill bar to a resume
Before you send a nursing resume
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A clean one-column layout with plain headings is easiest for people and for online application systems to read, and ATS-friendly resume covers the formatting rules that matter.
Where SnugCV fits
Nursing postings vary by unit, system and certification, and each application is a chance to move the right details to the top. SnugCV builds a profile once from your uploaded PDF resume. When you paste a posting, it rewrites the summary, reorders the skills and rewords the bullets in the posting's language in about a minute, and lists the matched keywords and the gaps. Employers, titles, dates and education are copied unchanged, so a license date or a facility name never shifts. Every change comes with a plain-language note, and you review and edit before you download a PDF.
Keep going
If you are a new graduate with little paid experience, resume with no experience covers what to include. Resume summary examples has more patterns for the opening lines, why tailor a resume for each job explains the reasoning, and behavioral interview questions and the STAR method helps you turn each bullet into a story that protects your patients' privacy. For other roles in patient care, see the guides to CNA resumes, medical assistant resumes, pharmacy technician resumes and EMT resumes.
Questions people ask
How long should a nursing resume be?
A common rule of thumb is one page for new graduates and for nurses under about ten years in practice. Two pages are reasonable for travel nurses, who have many assignments to list, and for nurses with leadership, precepting and several certifications. In both cases the first page should hold the license block, the summary and your most recent role.
Do clinical rotations count as experience?
Yes, for a new graduate they are the main experience. List them as clinical experience with the facility type, the unit, your hours and what you did, using the same bullet style as a job. Keep every line free of patient details, and give your total hours as your program recorded them.
Where do licenses and certifications go?
Near the top, in a labeled block directly under the summary, with the type, the issuing state or body and the status or expiration date. The credentials you want read first can also follow your name in the header. Postings often make the license a requirement, so the screener should find it in seconds.
Should I put my license number on my resume?
Many applications ask for it in a separate field, and a resume posted to a job board is easy for anyone to see. A common choice is to leave the number off and give it when asked. Check the posting or your recruiter's instructions, and follow what the employer asks for.
How do I list travel nursing assignments?
List the agency as the employer and each assignment beneath it, with the facility, city, unit, bed count and dates, most recent first. Group older assignments into one line to keep the page short. Keep the dates exact, and note an extension where there was one, since the dates are the part a recruiter checks.
What if I have been away from nursing for a while?
Use the real dates, and state the status of your license honestly, whether active, inactive or lapsed. If you have done a refresher course, per diem shifts or related work, list it. Rules for returning to practice vary by state board, so check yours before you apply and say what you have done to prepare.
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