The nursing student is planning for a career as a licensed practical/vocational nurse (LP/VN) in another state and begins to prepare his résumé. The nursing student should consider what when writing the résumé? Select all that apply
A) Ask for permission from clinical nursing instructors, faculty, and nurse manager of the unit where the nurse worked as a nursing assistant.
B) List volunteer nursing activities completed while in nursing school.
C) List honors related to nursing scholarship and service.
D) Names of institutions where the student had nursing school clinical experiences.
E) Membership to a collegiate honor society unrelated to nursing.
F) Short-term and long-term goals related to nursing in the particular area of nursing the student plans to apply for positions.
Ans: A, B, C, F
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The nursing student preparing to take a position in another state should contact the potential references related to nursing for permission to use them as a reference and ask for their contact information, address, e-mail, telephone number. The nurse should list volunteer activities completed while in school related to nursing, honors related to nursing scholarship and service, and short-term and long-term goals related to nursing in the particular area of nursing that the nurse plans to apply. The nurse does not need to include collegiate honors unrelated to nursing or the names of the institutions where the student had nursing clinical while in school. The résumé needs to be clear, to be concise, and to provide a quick summary of previous education and career experience.
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