Licensed practical nurse resume examples & writing guide for 2026

The setting, in the headline

Skilled nursing and a 24-resident hall. The settings this license works in are genuinely different jobs, so naming the one you came from is what tells a reader whether your experience transfers.

Months on the license, counted

Fourteen months, with the aide years before it in the same building. Time on the license and time in the building are different facts, and separating them is more useful than one years figure.

The med pass, with its minutes

A 24-resident pass twice a shift at about an hour each, on a 120-bed floor. The med pass is the day in long-term care, so the residents and the minutes say how hard the cart actually ran.

Reported, not assessed

Changes reported to the charge nurse, with the ones that became provider calls counted. The verb matters. This license collects data and reports it, and writing otherwise reads as a scope error.

Directing aides, said plainly

Six nursing assistants across 3 shifts a week for 14 months. Delegation runs downward from this license in long-term care, so it is a legitimate supervisory claim and one new nurses often leave off.

The aide years, in aide language

Activities of daily living, transfers and call lights, written as assistant work. Rewriting a nursing assistant job in nursing verbs is the fastest way to lose a director of nursing's trust.

A different setting, a different unit

Home health counts visits a day, not residents on a hall. Changing the unit when you change the setting is what tells a hiring manager you understand the job you are applying for.

Visits a day, not residents

Six a day across 3 counties, with the certification beside it. The summary is written in the vocabulary of the setting being applied to rather than the one this nurse started in.

Geography counted, not implied

Six visits a day across 3 counties and about 240 miles a week. Home health is a driving job as much as a nursing one, and the mileage says whether the territory was realistic.

Charted before leaving the home

Ninety-eight percent same-day documentation. Late charting is the complaint every home health manager has, so the rate is the operational number in this setting that gets a candidate called back.

The skilled nursing year, one line

A med pass and 6 assistants, kept to one line. The earlier setting is worth keeping because it shows the same nurse working under a completely different routine, and one line is all it needs.

The IV certification, dated

Intravenous therapy certification with its issuing body and year. Some states will not let this license touch an intravenous line without one, and in others it decides which patients you can be assigned.

The unit, not the cart

Forty beds, 3 nurses and 9 assistants. At charge level the numbers belong to a unit, and a resume still counting one cart is applying for the job it already has.

Both settings, one sentence

Ten years across long-term care and home health. Two settings is a strength when it is stated as range rather than left to look like drift, and the years make it legible at a glance.

Med pass time, and the method

Ninety-five minutes to 62 by resequencing the cart and the record. The minutes are the claim and the resequencing is the evidence, because another building could do the same thing tomorrow.

Falls in the field's own rate

Six point four to 2.9 per 1,000 resident days over 18 months. A raw fall count means nothing without the denominator the industry uses, and using it says the writer reads their own quality reports.

The home health years, one line

Six visits a day and 22 patients on service, kept to a single line. An earlier setting earns its place by holding the pace and the caseload and giving up everything else.

The first floor, still dated

Wound care and a 24-resident med pass on a 120-bed floor. Ten years fit one page because each older seat keeps only its scale, and the building size is the scale here.