NS60168W/Z Evidencing Graduate and Transferable Skills

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Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION.....................................................................................................................................3
Common duties of a nurse....................................................................................................................4
Ethics, laws and principles set for registered nurses...........................................................................7
Ethics...................................................................................................................................................7
Principles.............................................................................................................................................8
UK’s Health Industry............................................................................................................................9
CURRENT CV........................................................................................................................................10
EXTENDED CV......................................................................................................................................14
List of professional memberships.......................................................................................................14
Objectives.............................................................................................................................................15
Skills.....................................................................................................................................................16
Other Attributes..................................................................................................................................17
Licensure and Certifications...............................................................................................................18
SCANNED COPIES OF TRANSCRIPTS AND QUALIFICATIONS................................................18
CONCLUSION........................................................................................................................................19
REFERENCES........................................................................................................................................20

INTRODUCTION
A registered nurse is a nurse who has graduated from college, university or any other education
institution after going through a nursing training. These nurses must also have passed the
national examination meant to examine their knowledge and capability in their expertise.
Additionally, a registered nurse must have a met or rather achieved the requirements expected by
a country’s, a state’s, province’s or any other authoritative body’s laws and regulations (Kirwan
and Coyne, 2017). This means that for a nurse to be called a registered nurse, they must have
graduated and must attain a license from these bodies to give them authority to practice their
career or rather apply their skills anywhere. Registered nurses often work in hospitals or any
other outpatient facilities. All Registered Nurses have certain common and specific roles and
responsibilities to perform during their practice (Battie et al, 2014). To be specific, the main duty
for nurses is basically to provide care for patients. Generally, nurses act as a helping hand for
doctors. Some of the most common duties that nurses are responsible for include: ensuring
effective communications with doctors, administering patient medications, keeping or
documenting patient records, monitoring patient health condition regularly which means regular
checkups (Matsumoto et al, 2014), helping patients by carrying out certain activities like vising
the toilets, offering emotional and mental support to patients e.g. through engaging in
professional healthy talks and conversations with them and washing as well as changing the
patients’ beddings and clothing among other things (Bobay et al, 2009). All of these
responsibilities are the ones that determine a patients’ recovery status, which means that nurses
are the people that hold patient lives in their palm (Battie and Steelman, 2015). Nurses are
basically the ones to determine how fast or slow a patient will recover or/and whether a patient
will recover at all.
Having been trained to provide care to their patients, nurses are basically expected to have
certain skills and qualifications that make them unique for the job. The most common skills
include the following: critical thinking, kindness, physical endurance, observation skills,
effective and strong communication skills (Sheldon and Hilaire, 2015), empathy, effective
planning skills and desire to help to name a few of them (Karen Tomajan, 2012). However, not
every skill that can be learn through training, some of these skills are skills which these nurses
are born with or rather are naturally given, e.g. empathy, kindness, compassionate, desire to
learn, dedication and patience among others. The skills that most probably can be learnt through

training are: organizational skills, planning skills, critical thinking, excellent communication
skills, effective judgment and decision making choices, efficient leadership skills, flexibility to
name a few. All of these skills are used to ensure that nurses hired for certain jobs are up for it
and that they are capable of providing the best quality service expected. In other words,
registered nurses should ensure that they have offered the best quality care by utilizing every
skill, knowledge and experience they can (Kelly, 2017), i.e. basically ensuring human live safety.
Common duties of a nurse
Patient observations
It is the role and responsibility of a registered nurse to be always well updated and aware of their
patient’s health condition. This can be achieved by making sure that the patient is frequently
checked, observed and assessed. The nurses are responsible for taking body temperature
readings, patient blood sugar levels, breathing rates, blood pressure levelsand heart rates to name
a few measurements (Epstein and Turner, 2015). By doing this, the nurse will be get the
opportunity to notice any changes in their health and hence get a better opportunity to save the
patient’s live in case their health condition worsens.
Patient engagement
The nurses should ensure that their patients are well engaged but in a professional way. They
should use their skills and knowledge to create some conversation with patients. This can include
being involved in conversations that will certainly contribute to patient’s recovery (Kirwan and
Coyne, 2017), e.g. best ways of caring for one’s self and most effective times to take medications
among others. This is proven to be an indirect way to improve a patient’s health and could have
worked for the patient in the case study.
Observation Documentation
Whenever an observation, an assessment or a check-up is done, the nurse should ensure that they
record and document the details or results for future reference or as evidence. Every nurse on
duty should ensure that they have a complete documentation of all the readings and
measurements taken from the patient during their time schedule (Parandeh et al, 2015). The
purpose for this is basically to ensure that the documents are safe and can be produced as

security and evidence in case anything goes wrong. They will be able to show that the nurse
followed the rules and adhered to the council ethics.
Personal attributes
Every nurse or midwife is supposed to have certain personal and interpersonal attributes that help
them cope during in their work. Most of these attributes should involve skills like sympathy,
accountability, critical thinking, innovative skills and ability to solve problems among others.
Just as mentioned earlier, some of them are given to an individual naturally (exist since birth and
therefore do not need to be taught or learnt) e.g. sympathy, kindness, patience, communication
skills, desire to learn, ability to be responsible and determination skill (Bloomfield and Jones
2013). The other types of skills must be taught and learnt hence acquired from the nursing
experts or teachers e.g. analytical skills, organizational skills, critical and creative thinking skills,
stress management skills and flexibility skill (Gray, 2016). All of these skills play a very
important role in ensuring that the registered nurses are capable and have the ability to perform,
complete and be successful in their duties.
However, the duties given to nurses vary according to their location of work or rather their work
place. In United Kingdom, the nurses are responsible for providing support both to the hospital
and to the surrounding community, i.e. the patient relatives (Hernandez, 2016). The registered
nurses in United Kingdom also have the obligation of ensuring that doctors working in different
hospital departments are given the best cooperation available, especially those that work in the
operating rooms or rather surgical doctors. The authoritative body in United Kingdom heading
the team of registered nurses is known as the Nursing and Midwife Council (NMC). Basically,
the Nursing and Midwife Council heads both the registered nurses and midwives as well as other
public health specialists registered to practice their career in United Kingdom. This is the body
that is responsible for the nursing professionals and practitioners in the country. This means that
the council creates and implements certain ethics and rules that govern the nurses working
there.There are different roles and responsibilities expected to be achieved and performed by this
council, they include (Smith, 2005): ensuring the welfare and well-being of the public or rather
the patients in terms of health status, set the education standards in terms of training, knowledge,
conduct, skills and performance expected to be achieved by any and every nurse expecting to
graduate or be registered to work in the country, ensuring that the nurses are well updated and

modernized when it comes to their skills, knowledge and training at all times, ensure that all the
nurses adhered to the laws, rules and regulations set in order for them to uphold the ethical
standards and provide quality services to the patients to name just but a few roles.
The council is a governmental organization that was formed in the year 2010 after the
dismantling of the Nurses and Midwifes Board. The main aim for creating a new body id
basically to ensure professional ethical standards adherence and patient safety. In addition to
that, the other board’s mission is to protect public safety and maintain professional standards
through the effective regulation of nurses and midwives and the development of collaborative
relationships (Duff et al, 2014). To achieve its mission, the organization is responsible for
assisting and managing around 14 professional councils in NSW, which work under its laws and
rules. The council also works hand in hand with the NSW Health Care Complaints Commission
to manage any complaints reported about the NSW health practitioners as well as the registered
students in the health practitioner program. The board is in charge of all the nurses, midwives
and other public health practitioners in the country. This means that every practitioner must
basically go through it before they are given their license and authority to practice their skills and
expand their careers in the country. According to Dehghani et al, 2015, the council helps the
health nurses and midwifes to implement the laws, work ethics and quality standards in their
profession as much as possible (Sundqvist, 2017). These laws are used to govern the registered
nurses during their work schedules including in their daily operations. The laws are also in a
position to protect the patients in the hospitals.The main objective of this council is to increase
the nurses’ or midwives’ trust and confidence in their work areas.
Ethics, laws and principles set for registered nurses
Ethics
Ethics and laws are basically a set of rules, regulations and principles that are meant to govern
and direct the behavior and actions of a group of people. Their main aim is to ensure that all the
group members behave evenly and if not, they are punished equally (Brown and Finnell, 2015).
The ethical and legal issues governing the medical world all revolve around ensuring the safety
of a patient’s health.
 Quality service provision

This simply has to include the provision of care to the patient and safety.According to Fisher,
2017, Quality service can be available by ensuring that qualifies and capable nurses are hired and
employed to take care of the patients. to ensure quality service, nurses ought to treat each and
every patient with dignity and humanity, be in a position to provide and answer their own
judgment and actions conducted in their work schedules, increase and improve their knowledge
and skills to ensure patient care is of high standard and possible outcomes are positive (Parandeh
et al, 2015), ensuring effective and efficient communication with the doctors and other nurses, be
ready to work with their colleagues to coordinate and manage patient health progress and
improve the care given to them etc.
 Patient privacy
Patients in a hospital are often referred to as people receiving treatment but this ethical codes
value these people as more than just that. According to the code, patients are not juts people
receiving nursing care, but they are also the surrounding population of healthy people, their
families and relatives. This code of ethics aims at protecting a patient’s information and research
and is actionable regardless of their status or gender (Day, 2009). This means that a patient’s
health condition, disease progress and any other information regarding the patient should be kept
private and confidential.
 End of life issues
These refer to procedures that are done when a patient is certainly near death (Ulrich et al, 2010).
End of life issues relate mostly to cases of patients with chronic diseases and those at the very
edge of dying. The end of life ethics state that patients should be provided the best care possible
and be given a suitable environment to enhance last day’s comfort ability status (Brown and
Finnell, 2015). This means that the patients should be accorded the best attention available.
 Patient nutritional and hydration procedures
This ethics is used to ensure that patients are accorded the best care in terms of food and drink
nutrition even on their death beds. Registered Nurses as allocated the responsibility of giving
food to the patients and ensuring nutritional values are included in those foods.
 Right to protect human life

This is the most serious and main aim and objective for nurses. Registered Nurses are trained to
offer support, care and save human life at all times (Gorski, 2008). Nurses are used as helpers for
doctors in their absence. The nurses basically the lives of the patients in their hands.
Principles
There are certain specific medical ethics that are involved in all the health institution in the
world. These basic principles may not specifically apply to nurses only, but can apply to them to
ensure that they have provided the best care possible and that their decisions are in accordance to
what a patient need. Some of these principles include:
Principle of autonomy which states that every individual has the right to make his/her own
choice. In every health care procedure, the patient need to be given the opportunity to choose
what they want to do at that exact moment, i.e. they must have the intention, though and action
when making decision regarding their health care procedures (Dabkowski, 2016). In other words,
the decision making process must be free of coercion, whereby in this case, the nurse must
ensure that the patient of all the risks and possible challenges and outcome of the procedures
(White and Scott, 2015). Therefore, with this in mind, the nurses get the chance to provide the
best care to the patient bearing in mind that the decision was not their but it is their duty to do so.
Beneficence principle that states that every person should be in a position to act in the best
interest of another. The principle is applied to both the doctors, nurses, patient’s immediate
relatives and partners encouraging them to be capable of making the right choices for the
patients, i.e. that which will cause no harm to them but rather be beneficial (Walsh, 2015). In this
case, the health care providers (nurses) should certainly be able to develop and maintain their
skills, knowledge and expertise by frequently updating their trainings and education with the aim
of providing efficient and effective outcomes from the quality care services provided to the
patients.
Justice
This refers to issues regarding unfairness and favoritism when treating patients in a hospital. This
principle operates under the assumption that every health care practitioner treats all patients the
same way. The principle focus on the fact that every countries laws, especially those governing
health sector and patient treatment treat every society member fairly and equally. Therefore, a

health care provider must ensure the following four main aspects are fairly and equally
evaluated: scarce resources, patients’ competing needs, patients’ rights and obligations as lastly
potential needs of the patients are evenly distributed (Shahriari et al, 2013).
Non-Maleficence
This principle insists that all health practitioners should ensure patient safety or rather no harm
should come to the patient during any procedure or in a hospital. This principle basically insists
of patient safety especially recovering patient in different admission rooms. His means that nurse
should always stay in site or should make regular visits to a patient to ensure that they are safe
and comfortable (McHugh and Lake, 2010). This reduces the chances for the patient to be
harmed or even to harm other people in the surrounding.
UK’s Health Industry
In the modern world, the health industry is becoming a very wide industry whereby hospitals and
clinics whether public or private are being opened daily. Additionally, with the modern food
eating choices and lifestyles lived by most people, there are many diseases and healthy
conditions that arise daily and require the help of a nurse to cope with them and/treat them.
These two reasons have led to the increase in competition for the nurses around the world who
are searching for work, especially in United Kingdom (Birks et al, 2016). This means that the
search for registered nurses is ongoing at every corner of the world. Therefore, it is important
that every nurse ensures that they have all it takes to improve their profile in terms of skills,
qualifications, knowledge and experience in their practice to ensure survival of their career
(Andreou et al, 2014). In most developed countries, the training of the nurses is better and more
effective than the developing or underdeveloped countries. Therefore, United Kingdom being a
developed country, the registered nurses there must have the closest competition rates with one
another.
Generally, when looking for a job, an individual must ensure that their profile is in its best status
by including every qualification in their resume. In the case of nurses, it may include the
volunteer jobs done, type of skills acquired during the volunteering period, the roles and
responsibilities allocated during their volunteering period, skills and type of knowledge acquired
during their training or education period to name just but a few (Bradbury‐Jones and Broadhurst,
2015). However, this is the case for most fresh nursing graduates looking for jobs. On the other

hand, the nurses who have been in the market for a while longer after graduating, they must list
their previous work location, position of their work, their roles and responsibilities, the duties
performed or allocated during in their previous location, the skills attained from the location or
rather from their previous location among other things. In this assignment, I am going to focus
on my own resume. As a fresh graduate from a nursing college and applying for a job with a
hospital in United Kingdom.
CURRENT CV
A curriculum Vitae is a detailed document that a job seeker or potential employee drafts when
applying for a certain specific job. A curriculum vitae involves an overview of a person’s
experience and other various qualifications required for a job. A curriculum vitae includes
aspects like applicants contact information, personal information which is optional, employment
history, education levels, professional qualifications which include things like educational and
other certifications and accreditations, list of referees, skills and attributes of the applicant to
name just but a few. Other things that are involved in a curriculum vitae (optional) are: other
work experiences, volunteer job experiences, honors and awards, extracurricular activities and
professional memberships among other things. A curriculum vitae assists an applicant to express
themselves and their experiences without speaking or rather in written form. A curriculum vitae
helps an applicant advertise their job qualification to their potential employees through the use of
a document. Every job application needs a curriculum vitae to be provided by the applicants.
This means that even nursing job applications should certainly be accompanied by a curriculum
vitae of the applicants. In this case, the curriculum vitae is for a fresh graduate nurse who has
already been registered but may not have enough experience for the job. The applicants name is
Chidimma Chukwunyere and is applying for a job in one of the hospitals in United Kingdom.
The following includes its curriculum vitae details:

CURRICULUM VITAE
Chidimma Chukwunyere
Personal Profile
I am a dependable and motivated person who can be relied upon to undertake my role and
responsibilities with competence and professionals at all times. In addition to strong
communication and interpersonal skills, I can work in a multi-disciplinary team of various
professionals involved in improving quality of customers care. I have great initiative skills. I am
a flexible and a hardworking person who can adapt easily and so can work under pressure in a
demanding role. My drive and ambition ensure I am a valuable addition to any company.
Education/Qualifications
 2011-2014 University of Greenwich (Bsc Health and Well-being)
 2012/2013 Annual Student Gala Certificate for Bsc (Hons) Public Health combined with
Health and Wellbeing
 2009-2011 Greenwich Community College (BTEC National Diploma in Health and
Social Care)
 2009-2010 Greenwich Community College (EDEXCEL Level 3 BETEC National
Certificate in Health and Social Care)
 2008-2009 Greenwich Community College (EDEXCEL Level 2 BETEC First Diploma
in Health and Social Care)
 GCSE’S including English and Maths, Ejemekwuru-Akabor Secondary School (2000-
2006)
Employment History
Health Care Assistant, Kings College Hospital, 2014 to Date
 Washing and dressing
 feeding
 move about the ward
 Assisting patient to the toilet.

 Monitoring patients by checking their temperature, pulse, respiration and weight, and
generally help to make them feel comfortable while they are in hospital.
Health Care Assistant, BUPA Manley Court Nursing Centre, 2009 to Date
 Washing and dressing
 Feeding
 Helping people to mobilise, Toileting and Bed making
 Generally assisting with patients' overall comfort
 Monitoring patients' conditions by taking temperatures, pulse, respirations and weight.
 Recording and Treating information concerning customers and staff as strictly
confidential at all times.
 Administration of medications to patients
 Changing patient beddings
 Offering professional support to patients by engaging in professional conversations and
talks with them
 Educating patients on how to care for themselves
 Promoting Choices independence and individuality of customer.
Voluntary work in health and wellbeing
09/2013 Penrose Fusion-Volunteer Administrator/Data Entry
 Filing/Photocopying
 Preparing Assessment Packs
 Preparing Allocation Folders
 Data Entry
 Creating Spreadsheets
 Managing Information Resources
 Patient history documentation
 Providing effective communication channels with the doctors
Work Placement in Health and Social Care

02/2010-5/2010 Leemore Community Day centre for Learning Disabilities
Skills and Abilities
 Good Teamwork facilitated by supporting others and promoting the concept of teamwork
 Organisational skills facilitated motivating others through own commitment and
dedication to deliver results
 Target driven and enthusiasm
 Good administration and PC skill
 Clear understanding of customer need and expectation
 Clear communication skills (written, verbal presentation and visual) and ideas in a clear
and concise manner
 Ability to undertake own initiative.
 Punctuality, Honesty and Integrity
 Flexibility, Adaptability and willingness to learn new skills
 Strong communication skills (both written and oral)
 Effective leadership skills
 Strong and effective planning skills
 Analytical skills
 An excellent critical thinker
 Great desire to learn
 Great judgment and decision making techniques
 Effective problem solving methods
 Excellent stress management skills
 Skills of kindness and compassionate
 Empathetically skilled
 Focused, dedicated and ability to be patient
References available on request
EXTENDED CV
The applicant’s curriculum vitae is somehow partial or incomplete and therefore I will offer a
specific extended vitae for him to use during his nursing job application. The current vita is
missing some parts or rather sections that are required and needed by most employee who are

currently seeking to hire nurses. The current modern world is very specific nowadays with
ensuring that they hire and employ most qualified nurses in the industry. The main aim and
purpose for this is simply to ensure that their employees are qualified for their jobs and that they
are capable of offering the best services to their customers, the patients. In this case, the nurse
has already provided some sections that are essential for a nurse’s job application sections while
missing others, e.g.:
List of professional memberships
Every business industry contains a group of employees with professional backgrounds, skills and
knowledge to help them conduct their daily work operations. In a nursing home, hospital or any
other outpatient facility, nurses are expected to exercise their professional tactics and practices to
be able to achieve and perform their roles and responsibilities (Mckenna et al, 2014). Just as
mentioned earlier, nurses are trained to specifically be in a position to provide safety and care for
their paints in all ways. However, some of the skills, knowledge and techniques practiced by
most nurses do not originate from just being taught or lectured by their teachers (Newton et al,
2017 and Rooke, 2014)). Some of them originate from them being involved and a part of certain
professional groups or clubs. These groups or clubs have the mandate to provide experience to
their members and other technical skills that can be acquired through observation and group
work or team work (Borhani et al, 2013). Some of these skills include attributes like excellent
leadership skills, good team leaders, great team member, planning skills and effective
communication skills (Mckenna et al, 2017). Some of the organizations which a fresh graduate
looking for a job can include in their curriculum vitae include: UK’s College of Nursing, UK’s
General Practice Network, UK’s Wound Management Association and UK’s Primary Health
Care Nursing Association (Myatt, 2015). In this case, the graduate can include some of these
organizations to increase their chances of getting the job being applied for.
Professional Memberships

I have been a member of UK’s Primary Health Care Nursing Associations. The organization
aims at advancing professional nursing recognitions, improving the sustainability of the work
force, ensuring leadership skill learning and spread in the health sector ensure that nurses’ roles
and responsibilities are recognized as patient-centered practices all over United Kingdom. In this
organization, I acted as the program coordinator since my first year in the university till today.
My role was basically to organize, plan and manage all the organization’s operations especially
functions that involved patient care and safety. Some of the functions that I organized include:
cancer patient care day, APNA’s annual general meetings and chronic disease patient recognition
day, opening of charity works and charitable buildings in the organizations name to name a few.
Objectives
This simply refers to the main aim of purpose for applying the job. In other words, it refers to the
main reason as to why the applicant has applied for the job. In this section, the applicant can
indicate their use or their value to the organization and the benefits that they will bring to the
organization in case they are hired (Bloomfield et al, 2013). Here the applicant should also
include the overall objectives of the organization itself so catch the potential employee’s
attention.
 To seek the job of a registered nurse with the aim of achieving exceptional combination
of theoretical and clinical skills as well as further knowledge regarding the practice. I will
be able to implement my skills towards achieving the hospital’s overall objectives by
ensuring that I have effectively performed my roles and responsibilities and exercised the
standards nursing procedures of assessing, planning and implementing as well as
reviewing patient care pans and schedules.
 Licensed registered nurse with a ACLS and BLS certifications and with many hours of
clinical experience received from professional organizations and associations
 Excellent in multitasking and communication responsibilities especially with the
technical proficiencies involved in the electronic medical records.
 Aiming at providing safe, effective and efficient nursing car4e to the patients by
exercising my skills, knowledge and expertise.
 Aiming at offering personal and direct attention and care to patients allocated to me by
following the procedures, processes, policies and practices involved in the nursing
industry.

 Being focused and empathetic, I will be able to bring best experience and care as well as
extensive knowledge into ensuring patient lives are saved and health conditions improved
daily.
 To ensure that all patient groups and ages are cared for by exercising my desire and
devotion toward the society and its member’s health.
 To exercise my compassion and understanding of patient needs in your organization
especially those that are currently seeking excellent patient care due to various reasons
 To exercise my skills, knowledge and expertise in teaching and educating other nurses or
rather the students working as interns in the hospital
Skills
Skills are the personal attributes that makes a person unique and different from others. The skills
of a nurse can either learnt from their education institutions or the individuals can be born with
them. However, most of the skills learnt and acquired during trainings are the most commonly
used skills in this industry. This is simply because, the nurses are meant to not only care for their
patients but also save their lives, especially in the absence of a doctor (Blakemore, 2016). Every
nurse applying for a job, must therefore be ready to list all of their skills and attributes that will
enable them be completely unique or rather more qualified for the job than others (Blevins and
Millen, 2016). In this case, the student has listed many skills but has left out some of the most
important ones, i.e. the most crucial skills and qualifications needed in a health sector job
vacancy. They include:
 Problem solving skills
 Time management skills
 Have strong sense of intellectual integrity and ethical standards adherence
 Ability to work effectively in a team or group
 Capability to be flexible at all time
 Desire to learn
 Capability to include and involve details
 Skill of being alert and observant at all times
 Strong sense of responsibility
 Great physical and mental endurance capability
 Result oriented

 Computer skills
 Administrative skills
 Language skills
Other Attributes
It is crucial to know that my skills on critical thinking as well as problem solving skills have
played a very fundamental role in securing my competition position in the market certainly
because they first and foremost:
Generate a lot of curiosity and desire to learn especially in trying to examine and determine the
cause of and effects of a disease or illness and heath (respectively) in a patient. These skills have
always enforced some pressure and have brought up the ability and capability to use clinical
evidence and assessment procedures to create and develop professional nursing interventions.
Secondly, these attributes have always enabled me to evaluate and determine the health status of
a general population as well as determining the effects of those determinants towards a particular
individual.
Lastly, with these skills i have the chance to identify certain specific inter-relationships between
biological, social and physical aspect that cause, affect or determine an individual’s health status
and condition.
Licensure and Certifications
In this section, the applicant should indicate the state in which he/she is registered as a nurse. In
addition to that, they should indicate how their certifications, eg the CPR certifications earned
during the nursing program or in any other related field that they may deem necessary and
crucial to be known by the potential employer. Basically, it is important to note that all nursing
programs and jobs require Basic Life Support (BLS) certification in order for the individual to
participate in any job. In some case, when the patient cases are very critical and life threatening,
some programs and jobs require Advanced CARDIAC Lie Support (ACLS). This certification is
mostly used by nurses that are allocated or work in the operating rooms, labor and delivery
departments and the intensive care units. This is simply because these units require a lot of
qualified and skilled personnel to serve the patients. However, these some of these certifications
can only be offered to a registered nurse who has a number of years for experience. On the hand,

there are other certifications that can be offered to a new and freshly graduated and registered
nurse with no qualification, which are supposed to expire in the same year offered in most cases.
Licensure and Certifications
During my volunteer work period, I was also able to acquire the following certifications:
Basic Life Support (BLS) Certification that expires October 2018
Advanced Cardiac Life Support (ACLS) Certification, expires October 2018
SCANNED COPIES OF TRANSCRIPTS AND QUALIFICATIONS
When drafting a curriculum vitae, the application cannot write about all their specific
qualifications especially those that involve backing up the information already mentioned in the
curriculum vitae sections. In most cases, these documents are usually very detailed and complex
therefore cannot be copied directly from their source. These kind of documents are just meant to
act as a back-up or rather a certification that the applicant surely received or attained all the
grades, levels and certifications mentioned in the curriculum vitae. Some of these documents
include: things like school results or grade transcripts, actual hard copies of the certificates,
awards and honors certifications, professional membership evidence among others. Therefore, in
that case, the applicant is supposed to scanned all these documents and attach them to the
curriculum vitae at the time of submitting he application. Besides scanning and attaching them
on their own, the applicant can also arrange for these documents to be sent to the organization
from their various sources via email. However, this is certainly makes the work more
complicated if the job application requires hard copy documents, whereby the applicant is then
required to just make copies of the original documents rather than scan them. On the contrary, in
case the job application is online or through the internet, the applicant should therefore ensure
that these documents are scanned and sent as attachment together with the cover letter of the job
application. It is important to note that, the applicant should ensure that these documents cover
all academic work especially one that was completed recently.
CONCLUSION
From the research, I can conclude that nurses are some of the most important people involved in
every patient’s life. Registered Nurses must be able to pass through a number of yea’s training

and education system which is meant to prepare them for their sole purpose, which is caring for
patients. Registered Nurses can be found in various places like outpatient facilities, hospital
admission rooms, patient administration rooms, intensive care units (ICU’s), operating rooms,
recovering patient rooms to name a few. Apart from having a sole purpose and aim for their
training, these nurses also have several roles and responsibilities allocated to them in their places
of work. However, each and every role is basically and entirely focused on ensuring patient
safety and live saving procedures by taking care of the patients. To add to that, the nursing
profession in the world, is governed by certain rules that lead directly to the sole purpose and aim
for training nurses. Generally, the ethical standards that govern registered nurses drive these
nurses towards achieving their main goal and objective which is to provide quality care for the
patients and ensuring patient safety at all times. Furthermore, besides the ethical standards and
code of ethics, the Registered Nurses are also supposed to follow certain principles that are put in
place all the medical procedures in the world, especially in United Kingdom. These standards
also play the same role as the code of ethics hence ensuring patient safety through quality care
provision. In United Kingdom, the body that sets and regulates such ethical standards is the
Nursing and Midwife Council. This council is supposed to indicate the code of ethics expected to
be obeyed by the nurses, midwives, doctors, surgeons or any other public health service
practitioner. The student in this case is applying for a job as a registered nurse in a hospital in
United Kingdom. Therefore, it is important for them to be aware of the competition levels in
United Kingdom especially in the medical sector. This student has given his curriculum vitae
which certainly fails to indicate other formal requirements for the job e.g. licensure and
certifications, common and most required skill in the job type, their professional memberships
and their main objectives. These are some of the most required aspects that a potential employee
need to see in a nurse’s curriculum vitae. Additionally, these are some of the most effective and
efficient unique aspects that a person can have and that can help a nurse to get a job, especially a
nursing job.

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