5 Must-Haves On Your Healthcare Resume

A few seconds is all your healthcare resume has to impress before the average medical employer tosses into a pile of resumes they aren’t interested in pursuing.  This is your chance to advertise yourself, and often your one and only chance to get your foot in the door.  We compiled our top 5 must-haves for your healthcare resume so that you get their attention.

Contact Info

This may seem obvious, but it’s one you don’t want to forget.  Give your potential employer as many ways to contact you as possible by including one to two phone numbers, a full physical address, and an email address.  You may want to indicate whether you are willing to receive text messages by citing it next to your mobile number.  Also, consider creating an email address just for your job search.  By doing so, you can create a professional looking address and these important emails won’t get lost amongst your personal emails.

Include Your Credentials Acronym After Your Name

Recruiters and employers have a lot of resumes to look through, and placing your credentials acronym, such as RN, LVN, or CNA, immediately after your name at the top of your resume helps ensure they don’t get overlooked.  Your credentials can easily be missed if they are only found within your resume.  Make sure to also include and elaborate on them in an “education” or “professional development” section of the resume as well.

Volunteer Work & Extracurricular Activities

Including volunteer work and extracurricular activities on a resume helps build your persona on paper and allows your future employer to get to know a little more about who you are before meeting in person. Let them know about any community service, clubs, or sports that you participate in that portray you in a positive light. It also lets them know that you are a well-rounded individual with varied interests.

Achievements and Certifications

Listing any of your related achievements and certifications lets a future employer know that you go above and beyond.  Whether you received recognition for your volunteer work or named “Employee of the Month” or “Rockstar Rookie” from your previous employer, it shows that you are doing great things and people are noticing.

Using Keywords From The Job Posting

Not that you want to copy a job posting and include it word for word in your resume, but your resume should be tailored to fit the job description.  Read through the job posting and highlight several keywords that describe what the employer is looking for, then take a look at your resume and include those keywords in areas that align with your training and experience.

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You don’t want to let your first opportunity with a possible future employer pass you by.  Small changes on your healthcare resume can be all you need to get their attention. For over 25 years, the experts at medical staffing have been helping qualified workers find employment in the medical field. Through our offices in San Antonio, Houston, and Beaumont, we’ve placed nurses, therapists and support staff at medical facilities across the region, and we’ve helped travel nurses find work all across the country. To learn more about our services, give us a call or contact our team online.

How to write a GP job description

Attract the best talent with an impactful GP job description

Competition for GPs is high and skills amongst the workforce can vary. How can you use your doctor job descriptions to encourage applications and make sure you’re attracting the best clinicians on the market?

First, remember a job advert has a different function than the internal job spec where detail will take precedence. A GP job description must contain enough detail to filter appropriate candidates but must also be succinct and interesting enough to make them want to apply. Simply listing what is required of them, without advertising what they will get in return for that, will do little to entice a workforce with other options available to them.

 

Consider the following format for your GP job description:

• Pitch the role and the requirement: a brief summary of what’s needed and what is offered
• Key tasks and responsibilities
• Type of person – competencies
• Minimum requirements – e.g. qualifications, number of years’ experience
• Clear call to action (apply)

You want to do enough to entice job seekers, demonstrate what the position entails and ascertain the applicant’s suitability for the role. Doing all three optimally will mean minimising the number of unsuitable applicants while maximising the number of those who are suitable, without risking losing the best quality candidates to your competition.

Sample job description for healthcare staffing

We are looking for a GP with a proven track record delivering optimal patient care to local communities for our thriving, Birmingham-based general practice. We offer sociable hours, excellent benefits and a supportive working environment.

 
Responsibilities

• Offer patient care for and assessment of minor ailments, chronic or minor illnesses, preliminary diagnoses
• Undertake a variety of duties including surgery consultations, telephone consultations and queries, triage calls, triage visits etc.
• Screen patients for disease risk factors and early signs of illness
• Administer and prescribe appropriate treatment and therapies
• Refer patients to specialist services where appropriate
• Update patient records
• Conduct routine examinations
• Offer appropriate general health and lifestyle advice to patients

Requirements

 As a GP with experience working within a busy practice you will have:

• 2+ years post qualified experience in a general practice
• Valid GMC license
• Comprehensive and up-to-date knowledge of general medicine
• Excellent interpersonal skills
• An understanding and caring manner
• Excellent organisational skills
• The ability to manage a heavy workload and work well under pressure
• Confident decision-making

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Securing the best candidate can take time, and optimising your GP job description is a key part of that. Locum GPs provide an excellent short-term reprieve If there is an incumbent gap while hiring, providing immediate cover with minimal commitment and so avoiding rush hires.

How to explain COVID-19 to children

When it feels like the whole world is talking about the Coronavirus, your children might be hearing some conflicting and potentially frightening things about it. Even adults are finding it difficult to cope with the barrage of information about the virus, but children might find it particularly worrying, especially if they are worried about their mum or dad. As healthcare staffing you are in a great position to help your children find solid ground in understanding the virus and alleviate any fears or anxieties. We won’t pretend we know the perfect way to talk to your children about COVID-19, but these tips might help make the process smoother:

Check what they already know

By starting with what your children already know and building from there you will make the conversation a lot easier for them. This will be different according to age. Small children will know less about the global scale of the pandemic and will be easier to talk to, whereas older children – especially ones with smartphones – might have heard a lot of information and be confused about what to make of it.

Putting news stories in context will help your children recognise the interconnectedness of the situation rather than spark fear with every new development.

Be calm and reassuring

Particularly for younger or anxious children, a calm, reassuring tone will help them recognise the importance of your work, and the effectiveness of the safety measures that are in place to protect you. If your child is very scared for your wellbeing, show them pictures of you in your PPE, or show them how you put it on using online videos. Tell them some positive stories of patients who have recovered.

Be honest

Whilst young children don’t need to hear about the number of deaths happening in the UK everyday from the virus, they should know what your average shift looks like, what you do and how you help people. With older children you can be more open whilst also reassuring them about the level of PPE offered by your facility for you.

If you don’t know the answer to a question your child has, acknowledging it and trying to find out together will help your child not feel so out of their depths and find reassurance that lots of developments are happening every day – you can look at the research that’s underway for the vaccine!

Let them know it is ok to be scared

No amount of rationalising is going to stop your children from worrying about you whilst you care for other people with COVID-19 and risk your health. But letting them know it’s perfectly natural to feel scared and that you’re doing everything you can to minimise the risk of getting ill will help calm their nerves and sleep better at night. Let them know you want them to tell you when they are worried or scared.

Many children tend to see the dangers for friends and family more so than for themselves, so when they hear that the elderly are more at risk than their own age group, they might feel particularly worried about grandma or grandpa. Letting them facetime regularly will help them see that by following the same social distancing protocol as you have in your house, grandma and grandpa are doing just fine.

Don’t dwell on the sad things

It’s inevitable that your children will hear some of the heart-breaking news about the Coronavirus death toll, acknowledging it and showing them how this has decreased will help them see that there is light at the end of the tunnel and this won’t last forever. However, mitigating this sad news with a fun activity will help your children to not be sad for too long. Reinforce the fact that lots and lots of people recover and have the virus and have only mild symptoms.

We have tips for things to do with the children during COVID-19 to help you find ways to take their minds’ off the sad news and create beautiful artwork to hang in the window to encourage and thank other healthcare professionals for their hard work.

For those with young children

For those with young children, Manuela Molina at mindheart.kids has created this downloadable storybook to explain COVID-19.

If you need any extra help with finding the resources to have these conversations with your children, we would be happy to help. We can also help you source locum or clinician work in primary or acute care with appropriate medical staffing agency, we would be happy to talk to you about it!

Celebrating nurses on International Nurses Day

When is International Nurses Day?

It is today, 12th May, marking the birthday of one of the founders of modern-day nursing, Florence Nightingale, heralded as one of the greatest nurses in the history of the profession. 2020 marks not only Nightingale’s 200th anniversary, but also coincides with the World Health Organization’s (WHO) celebration of the ‘Year of the Nurse and Midwife’. Nurses are amazing, providing care and compassion throughout the year to those most vulnerable. We would like to take International Nurses Day as an opportunity to say thank you to you all. During the outbreak of COVID-19 we are seen the very best of humanity in the work and dedication shown by all nurses and midwives around the world.

Who founded International Nurses Day?

The idea for International Nurses Day was conceived by Dorothy Sutherland, an official within the U.S. Department of Health. In 1953 she approached the current president, Dwight D. Eisenhower, proposing a day to celebrate the hard work and effort of nurses. It was initially rejected by the president but was eventually approved in 1965 and has been celebrated every year since.

Every year, the ICN allocates a theme to IND and this year’s theme, Nurses: A Voice to Lead – Nursing the World to Health, looks at the international beginnings of the movement with Florence Nightingale’s hygiene reforms in the Crimean war, and celebrates the hard work, stress, and compassion of nurses around the world. During this pandemic we are seeing the very best nursing has to offer and the theme, selected in 2019, has never been more accurate, we truly are seeing nurses nursing the world to health.

Why is it important we celebrate nurses?

We are pretty sure this is obvious, but we will let you know our reasons.

• Nurses place care at the heart of everything you do, you are

• Understanding, seeing all sorts during your career, you do not judge or snigger, but treat us with

• Respect, regardless of who we are or where we come from, nursing truly attracts a

• Special, kind of person, you see us at our worst and help us get us back to our best, showing

• Empathy, care and compassion all the while, you truly are our

• Superheroes

​Interesting stats around Nurses

• 698,237 - the number of nurses registered in the UK in 2019 according to the NMC

• 7,296 - the number of nurses who are dual registered as a nurse or midwife according to the NMC

• 5% - the percentage midwives that make up the NMC register in 2019

• 72 - the age of the NHS this year

• 18% - the percentage of international nurses working in the UK in 2019 according to the ONS

• 90% - the percentage of female nurses according to the NMC

• 1854 - the year Florence Nightingale led a team of nurses to aid soldiers and founded what we think of as modern nursing

• 100% - the percentage of how grateful we all are for having nurses in the world according to Medical Staffing​

Thank you on International Nurses Day

Nurses and midwives across the world have been truly inspirational, showing the care, compassion and professionalism in the face of an international pandemic. The stories we have heard from our nurses and those across the world show the best in humanity. From those working 12 hours a day in uncomfortable PPE, to two nurses in Australia who have suspended their wedding to help with the efforts, to nurses who have come out of retirement to work in remote triage facilities it has been amazing. As cheesy as it sounds, we truly believe that all nurses currently working during this pandemic are healthcare heroes. Below is a message from those working at medical staffing agency

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