Advanced Practice Nurse Job Search Success Strategies

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Advanced Practice Nurse Job Search Success
Strategies
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What do I want to do?

• Picture your life over the next 3, 7, and 10
  years
• What environment do you enjoy?
• What is rewarding and satisfying to you?
• Where do you want to live?
• What lifestyle do you want to have?
• What factors in your personal life impact your
  work life?

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Build your resume
Name, Credentials Address, City, State, Zip Phone
(best number) e-mail
EDUCATION University/College, City, State
date Master of Science, Advanced Practice
Pediatric Nursing Comprehensive Examination
topic University School of Nursing, City,
State date Bachelor of Science in Nursing
University/College, City, State
date Bachelor of Science
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CLINICAL EXPERIENCE Pediatric Nurse Practitioner,
Hospital, City, State date (Unit
Name) Summary include number of beds procedures
(limited) clinical knowledge committee
memberships Title, Hospital, City, State
date (Unit Name) Provided post-operative,
family-centered, direct nursing care to pediatric
patients in -bed cardiovascular intensive care
unit. Provided care to intubated children
requiring multiple vasoactive drips and
monitoring via central lines. Clinical knowledge
sedation, vascular access, external and internal
pacing, open chests, and admitting patients from
operating room following surgical repair of
congenital heart defects. Member of mock code
and tours and transitions committees. Title,
Clinic Name, City, State date
Summary Patients per day
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RESEARCH, PRESENTATIONS AND PAPERS University,
School of Nursing (Date)Brief summary
research  Names (Date). Title. Journal, volume
pages. Names (Date).  Title  brief summary.
Presentation Name including organization, City,
State.
AWARDS AND HONORS Speaker Poster
Presentation Awarded scholarship LICENSURE AND
CERTIFICATION PROFESSIONAL ORGANIZATIONS CATEGORY
OF SKILLS AND INTERESTS
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What am I going to say?

• The Telephone interview
• Desired Outcome An interview in person
• Keep your questions to a minimum unless you feel
  very unsure about the job
• Do your research, look up the person you are
  talking to, have information on the hospital,
  unit,
• and procedures
• Network
• Be prepared with dates for an interview

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• The Interview In Person
• Desired Outcome Job Offer
• Be professional, thoughtful, a good listener
• Do your research, look up people, their research,
  
• hospital unit, procedure
• Think through challenging situations,
• know your weaknesses
• Have a list of questions in your mind for each of
  the different people you will talk with
• Be confident, self controlled, rested, organized
  in
• appearance and thoughts, and be passionate

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Develop a Strategy for Success

• List all possible hospitals you are interested
  in
• If you are in pediatrics, go to www.melnic.com
  and clinic Childrens Hospital link
• Go to each of the hospital web sites to search
  for jobs
• For a quick look go to simplyhired.com, put
  Nurse Practitioner or Advanced Practice Nurse
  in quotes
• Network

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Job Tabs
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What can we do to stay ahead of the game?

• You are a smart, creative, thinking,
• leader, create opportunities
• After you have a signed an offer letter ask
• Are you feeling the pressure from the economy?
• Have you considered freezes or layoffs?
• Before you quit your job, ask if there is
  anything that could negate the offer

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• At a clinic
• Ask about turnover and layoffs
• Look for new equipment,
• environment
• Make sure you feel confident that
• physicians are good business people
• Remember that the hospitals and clinics that
  are hiring are in the best economic condition

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Why Should I Use a Recruiter?

• You have a full time job
• We have relationships with hospital hiring
  authority
• We can negotiate an offer
• We can talk you through the process
• You can not lose with the right recruiter
• Its free

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Why Should I use Melnic Consulting Group?

• The only exclusively Pediatric Nurse Recruiting
  firm
• Database includes 9000 Pediatric Advanced
  Practice Nurses, Nursing Leaders, and
  Recruiters
• Great relationships with Childrens Hospitals
• As the right recruiter,
• I do everything in my
• power to get you a job