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▶Nurse Job Search Kit + RN Resume Templates
A resume that puts your rotations, hours and skills first, and a tracker that shows what nights, weekends and per diem really pay.
NCLEX is passed, forty hospital portals want a resume, and the one you have lists your clinicals in a paragraph under Education.
- A new-grad RN resume in the clinical-rotations format: licenses, certifications, rotations with hours and skills above the work history
- An experienced RN resume and a travel nurse resume, all one column with real headings and no tables or text boxes
- Nursing cover letters in a new-grad and an experienced version, also as Google Docs copies
- A fillable Clinical Skills Checklist: 87 skills in eleven systems, rated 1 to 4, with a preceptor-verified box and a date for each
- A fillable Nursing Interview Question Bank: 60 questions across five rounds, three clinical STAR stories and 12 questions to ask the unit
- A Pipeline for 300 applications with hospital, unit, shift and recruiter, and up to four hourly offers side by side
- Licenses and Certifications with days left and status for NCLEX, the RN license, BLS, ACLS and PALS, and a CEU log
- A Pay and Differential Calculator: staff or per diem, night, weekend and charge differentials, your shift mix, weekly and annual pay and an estimated paycheck
Overview
A resume that puts your rotations, hours and skills first, and a tracker that shows what nights, weekends and per diem really pay.
NCLEX is passed, forty hospital portals want a resume, and the one you have lists your clinicals in a paragraph under Education.
The new-grad resume in this kit puts your license, certifications, every clinical rotation with its hours, and your skills at the top, where a nurse recruiter looks first. The tracker then does the math the offer letters leave out. In the invented sample, a new grad at $36.00 an hour working two weekday nights and one weekend night earns an estimated $1,518 a week and $78,936 a year. Add a third weekday night and it reads $2,154 a week and $112,008 a year, overtime premium included.
What's Included
One ZIP, 15 files:
- Three resumes in Word: New Grad RN (clinical rotations), Experienced RN and Travel Nurse
- Two nursing cover letters in Word: new grad and experienced
- The Clinical Skills Checklist (7 pages, 548 fields) and the Nursing Interview Question Bank (11 pages, 108 fields) as fillable PDFs on US Letter and A4
- The Nurse Job Application Tracker, Colorful edition, with nine tabs: Start Here, Setup, Pipeline, Interviews, Offers, Licenses and Certifications, Pay and Differential Calculator, Dashboard and Help; the same workbook in the Editorial palette, and a zip holding the Colorful, Light and Dark editions
- A PDF with the Google Sheets copy of the tracker and the Google Docs copies of the five Word files
- A two page Quick-Start PDF and a START-HERE file that names every file
Key Benefits
Why this one
The new-grad resume lists your license, certifications, every clinical rotation with its hours, and your skills before the work history. The sample shows six rotations and 765 hours.
Type your base rate and differentials, then how many weekday, weekend, night and charge shifts you work. Weekly pay, annual pay and an estimated take-home per paycheck follow, with the overtime premium on hours over 40.
NCLEX, the RN license, BLS, ACLS, PALS and the rest, each with days left and a status, plus a CEU log against the renewal requirement you set.
Sixty questions across the phone screen, the nurse manager, the peer panel, clinical scenarios and the final round, each with an answer box, and three clinical STAR stories to write once.
Rate each of 87 skills from 1 to 4 and let your preceptor check the Verified box and date it. It records; it does not teach, and it says to verify with your preceptor or employer.
Who It's For
Built for
- A new graduate nurse who needs a resume that shows clinical rotations, hours and skills
- An experienced RN changing units or hospitals who wants a clean resume and every application tracked
- A travel nurse between contracts who wants a resume built for assignments
- A nurse comparing offers on nights, weekends, charge or per diem pay
How It Works
Up and running in minutes
Choose new grad, experienced or travel, and type over the sample in Word, Google Docs or Pages.
Type your name, target hourly rate and start date on Setup, then log applications on Pipeline and your licenses on Licenses and Certifications.
Rate yourself on the skills checklist and answer the questions for your next round in the question bank.
Type each offer on Offers, and play with the shift mix on Pay and Differential Calculator to see weekly, annual and per-paycheck pay.
Why It's Different
Not another template
Most nurse resume listings are general resume templates with a nurse tag. This kit is built for a nurse's search: a new-grad resume in the clinical-rotations format, experienced and travel versions, nursing cover letters, a skills checklist your preceptor signs, a question bank for the unit interview, and a tracker that knows hospitals, units, shifts, licenses and CEU hours and turns a shift mix into weekly pay and a paycheck. The pay figures are planning estimates with every line shown, and it says so.
Delivery & Compatibility
Instant, and it opens in what you already use
As soon as your order is complete you get instant access to download the ZIP: three resumes and two cover letters in Word, the two fillable PDFs on Letter and A4, the Nurse Job Application Tracker in four color editions, the Google Sheets and Google Docs copy links, a two page Quick-Start PDF and a START-HERE file. Start with the Quick-Start guide and the free video walkthrough. Nothing ships and nothing installs.
One ZIP, instant download. The resumes and letters open in Word 2016 or later, Google Docs or Pages; the tracker in Excel 2016 or later or Google Sheets through the copy link; the PDFs in Adobe Acrobat Reader (free), Preview or most browsers. On a phone, use the Google Docs and Google Sheets apps with your copies. No Canva, no macros, no account and nothing to install.
FAQ
Questions, answered
What format is this?
Five Word (.docx) files, one workbook (.xlsx) in four color editions, and two fillable PDFs on US Letter and A4, with a quick-start PDF, a START-HERE file and the Google copies PDF. 15 files in one ZIP.
Is there a version for experienced and travel nurses?
Yes. Beside the new-grad resume there is an experienced RN resume and a travel nurse resume, and the cover letter comes in an experienced version too.
Does it work in Google Docs and Google Sheets?
Yes. Open ACCESS-YOUR-TEMPLATE.pdf and click Make a copy for the tracker or any of the five Word files, or upload the files to Google Drive. The resumes also open in Pages.
Is the skills checklist clinical advice?
No. It names skills and records your self-rating and your preceptor's verification. It does not teach a skill or decide when one may be performed. Verify with your preceptor or employer.
Are the pay figures exact?
No. They are planning estimates: overtime at half the base rate on hours over 40 in a week, the 2026 federal brackets, one planning rate for your state, Social Security and Medicare. Verify against a real pay stub.
Is there a Canva version?
No. The resumes and letters are Word files that also open in Google Docs and Pages. No Canva account is needed.
Nothing in this kit is clinical, legal or tax advice. The Clinical Skills Checklist records a self-rating and a preceptor's verification; it does not teach a skill or decide when one may be performed. Verify with your preceptor or employer, and follow your unit's competency process. The pay and tax figures are estimates to verify: overtime is estimated at half the base rate on hours over 40 in a week, and employers and some states work it out differently; the paycheck uses the 2026 federal brackets, one planning rate for your state, Social Security and Medicare. License and certification renewal rules differ by state and employer; confirm every date with your board and your employer. Applicant tracking systems differ. Leah Okonkwo and every hospital and figure in the samples were invented for the example, and every license number is zeros. Digital product; because the files are delivered instantly, all sales are final.
