Help with My Resume!

Hey R., I am a former Woman's and Children's nurse and current pedicatric nurse. I also went from a critical care background to the W&C unit. I have never looked back! I can honestly say that being ACLS certified would be a huge plus. All of the L&D nurses where I worked have ACLS as a mandatory requirement. I would also say that at least 60% of the nurses on the floor had a critical care background. It is surprising how much it comes in handy. It will be much harder for you to step into a L&D position with no expreience. It would be much easier to step into a postpartum/nursery position and then cross train to L&D. That is what I did. I would say to play up the important parts of your critical care experience that are also very useful to L&D. Are you any type of BLS/ACLS instructor? IV/SWAT/Rapid Response/Code Team? Have you already looked into the IBCLC requirements and began working on them? If so, can you list that objective on your resume? Surgery experience? Experience with post-op is a huge plus as well. This is all I can think of off the top of my head. I will update my post if I think of anything else.
GOOD LUCK!

I haven't recruited for the health care field, but I can "assume" that it's the same as the IT field....

use a bullet style format
take the top five things you have done at each position...and create those bullets
only go back 10 years
include all of your education
if you have progressed in your field, show your progression by the development of your positions over the course of 10 years.
use the "header" or "objective" to tell the reader what you want to do - capture their attention on that first line....then follow up with what a rock star you are!!

SPELL CHECK!! SPELL CHECK!!! SPELL CHECK!!!!
Grammar usage
Wording...use the KISS method - Keep it Simple Silly -

I am not a nurse but worked at copy stores for 10 years and saw a lot of resumes. I would not worry about your not having L&D experience but would word the resume in such a way that the overlap of skills would be obvious--(no nursing experience here)--clear decisive thinking in high stress situations... both jobs, responsibilities for materials and personnel management, familiarity with how a hospital operates. It seems that you have a LOT of great experience and just need to highlight how it could translate into the other department. best of luck!