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Travel nursing checklist item #14 – Knockout resumes hospitals love

Jeff — Fri, 13 Feb 2009 19:55:27 +0000

At this point in the travel nursing process you will be asked to submit a travel nursing resume. Some travel nursing companies will write your resume for you; either based on the information you supply on a resume you have already written or you list on your application. A good resume is very important for a travel nurse. The competition for travel nursing jobs can be intense for the really good locations and hospitals so you want to make sure you stand out. The style is important (and may even be changed to match the company’s look anyway), but nowhere near as much as the information on it and making sure it is presented in a clear and easy to follow format. Some of the key information every good travel nursing resume should have includes:

All certifications,
All licensures,
Locations of previous work history
Complete start and stop dates
Job type (travel assignment, perm, PRN, contract)
Any degrees you may hold
Locations of any school/college you attended
Dates you attended those schools

Your travel nursing company should have a lot of experience and knowledge about what hospital hiring managers want to see on a travelers resume so check with them and make sure you are providing all the information they need to build a competitive resume for you. But some other things you may want to add are a summary of qualifications and any volunteer work or non-profit organizations you belong to.

Also don’t worry about going too far back in your work history. It may be one of the older positions that is the selling point on your nursing skills. Also the travel nursing company you are working with may have a preset policy about how far back they go in your nursing job history.

Overall the biggest ingredient to a good resume is attention to detail and thoroughness. If you have those two aspects handled you will have a winning resume.

Airplane travel this season

Amanda — Tue, 07 Oct 2008 17:04:30 +0000

The holiday season is coming and will be here sooner than you know it.Â For me, I only get to fly home a couple times a year. Fortunately, I am lucky enough to go home to Arizona this week. Since I have last flown, Expressjet is no longer doing flights and now almost all airlines charge you for checking your luggage. So when you are flying to your next travel nursing assignment or flying back home check their websites to see what their luggage restrictions are. You don’t want to be paying extra for luggage.

Here are some links to some of the major airlines with some of their luggage restrictions and/or requirements:

New travel nursing blog from an old travel nursing expert

Jeff — Fri, 12 Sep 2008 14:57:46 +0000

Healthcare Traveler magazine has always had a very informative website for travel nurses, but now they have taken that a step further by launching HT Blogger. HT Blogger is written by:

Patricia Lederman
Group Editor
plederman@advanstar.com

Bobbi Harrison
Managing Editor
bharrison@advanstar.com

Jennifer Samuels
Associate Editor
jennifer.samuels@advanstar.com

If you read Healthcare Traveler magazine then you are already aware of the kind of info and quality they will bring to the travel nursing blog universe. Check out their blog and tell them TravelNursingBlogs.com sent you.

Dust off the archives

Jeff — Fri, 15 Aug 2008 18:16:15 +0000

If you are new to this blog, you may not realize that it has been around for two years and there are a lot of older posts here that are still very relevant to any nurse interested in a travel nursing career. Just an example of some of the cool posts you can find in the archives are “Keep your house safe while you are away on a travel nursing job” or the series of posts on “Travel nursing photo tips.”

To explore these and all the other archives you can visit our new TravelNursingBlogs.com archives page under the Ultimate Travel Nursing Resource Guide link.

Cool travel nurse story

Jeff — Tue, 29 Apr 2008 16:08:39 +0000

Here is a cool story about a nurse who carried the Olympic torch, which despite all the controversy this year, is something that I think is still a pretty important honor.