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Louisiana

The example

A school nurse resume, in full.

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Bernadette Oyelaran

School Nurse — Two Buildings, Combined Enrolment of Nine Hundred

Wilmington, Delaware

Professional Summary

School nurse covering an elementary and a middle school with a combined enrolment of nine hundred. Manages care plans for students with diabetes, seizure disorders, and severe allergy, and trains the unlicensed staff who cover in her absence.

Experience

School Nurse

Brandywine Hundred School District • Wilmington, DE

Aug 2020 - Present

  • Cover two buildings with a combined enrolment of nine hundred, splitting the week between them.
  • Write and maintain individual health plans for students with diabetes, seizure disorders, and severe allergy, and train the office staff who administer emergency medication when I am at the other site.
  • Rewrote the medication handover so the two buildings use one record rather than two.

Registered Nurse, Pediatrics

Riverside Children's Hospital • Wilmington, DE

Jun 2015 - Jul 2020

  • Paediatric medical-surgical unit, latterly as charge nurse on nights.
  • Included because the chronic condition management and family teaching are what transferred into school practice.

Education

University of Delaware

Bachelor of Science in Nursing • Nursing

Sep 2011 - May 2015

Skills

Individual health plan writingDiabetes management in schoolsSeizure action plansAnaphylaxis responseMedication administration and delegationUnlicensed staff trainingImmunisation complianceVision and hearing screeningFamily and provider liaison

Certifications

Delaware Registered Nurse License

Delaware Board of Nursing

Jun 2015

Certified School Nurse

National Board for Certification of School Nurses

May 2022

Pediatric Advanced Life Support

American Heart Association

Jan 2025

Section by section

What each part of this resume is doing.

Summary

The summary gives the enrolment covered and whether the post is single-building or shared, because a School Nurse across three schools is doing a different job from one in an office all day.

Experience

Each entry names the chronic conditions managed and the plans written. A School Nurse who lists only daily visit volume describes traffic rather than care.

Skills

Skills name the care plans, delegation, and medication systems a School Nurse owns, since these are the parts a district cannot cover with anyone else.

credentials

The nursing licence is listed with any separate school nurse certification, because a School Nurse may need both and states differ on which is mandatory.

Before you apply

What K-12 hiring committees look for

A district hiring a School Nurse needs someone who can write a care plan a teacher will follow and delegate safely to unlicensed staff. Emergency response experience is read closely because the post is often the only clinician in the building.

There are 121 open School Nurse roles, concentrated in Louisiana.

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Common questions

Writing a school nurse resume.

Enrolment covered, chronic conditions managed, care plans written, and your licence. There are 121 open School Nurse roles to match it against.

Not to be hired, but the delegation and care-plan work differs from a ward. A School Nurse coming from hospital nursing should name any paediatric and community experience.

In some states it is, in others the nursing licence alone suffices. List both if you hold them, since most School Nurse postings sit in Louisiana.