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Registered nurse CV template

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Imalka Perera

Registered Nurse · Intensive Care

Colombo · Open to relocation (UK, Australia)+94 77 000 0000imalka@example.lklinkedin.com/in/example

NMC

UK registration, 2025

8.0

IELTS academic

20 beds

unit, as shift lead

Profile

ICU registered nurse with eight years in adult critical care, including three as shift lead in a 20-bed unit. NMC-registered with IELTS 8.0, experienced in ventilated, post-cardiac and multi-organ-failure patients, and a trained preceptor for new ICU staff.

Experience

Shift Lead, Intensive Care Unit

2022 – Present

Private tertiary hospital · Colombo

  • Lead a team of eight nurses per shift in a 20-bed adult ICU with a 1:1 ventilated-patient ratio.
  • Introduced a sepsis-bundle checklist that raised one-hour antibiotic compliance from 64% to 93%.
  • Preceptor for 14 newly qualified nurses; all completed ICU competencies on schedule.

Staff Nurse, Intensive Care

2018 – 2022

National teaching hospital · Colombo

  • Cared for ventilated, post-cardiac-surgery and CRRT patients in a 32-bed unit.
  • Member of the rapid response team, attending 300+ ward deteriorations.
  • Co-authored the unit’s pressure-injury prevention protocol, halving incidence in a year.

Staff Nurse, Medical Ward

2016 – 2018

District general hospital · Gampaha

  • Delivered general medical nursing on a 40-bed ward, including diabetes and cardiac care.

Quality improvement

  • Sepsis-bundle checklistDesigned and rolled out across two ICUs; one-hour antibiotic compliance rose from 64% to 93%.
  • Pressure-injury prevention protocolCo-authored with the tissue-viability team; unit incidence halved within twelve months.

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How an applicant tracking system reads this CV

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ATS-friendly

9 checks passed · 1 to improve

An estimate based on how common ATS systems (Workday, Taleo, Greenhouse, Lever) parse CVs.

What an ATS identifies

Name
Found: Imalka Perera
Email
Found: imalka@example.lk
Phone
Found: +94 77 000 0000
Location
Found: Colombo · Open to relocation (UK, Australia)
Links
Found: linkedin.com/in/example
Job title
Found: Registered Nurse · Intensive Care
Skills
Found: 9: Mechanical ventilation, CRRT, Arterial lines, Inotrope titration, Sepsis management, Shift coordination, Preceptorship, Clinical audit…
Education
Found: BSc (Hons) Nursing (2019) · Diploma in General Nursing (2016)

Work history as parsed

  • Shift Lead, Intensive Care Unit at Private tertiary hospital2022 – Present
  • Staff Nurse, Intensive Care at National teaching hospital2018 – 2022
  • Staff Nurse, Medical Ward at District general hospital2016 – 2018

Profile / Summary section not foundExperience section not foundEducation section not foundSkills section not foundProjects section not foundCertifications section not foundLanguages section not found

ATS-friendliness checks

  • Passed: Contact details can be readEmail and phone are plain text in a recognisable format.
  • Problem: Standard section headingsMissing or unrecognised: Experience, Education, Skills. Use these exact words as headings.
  • Passed: Custom section name“Quality improvement” is a heading ATS parsers understand.
  • Passed: Dates an ATS can parseEvery role has dates in a standard format, so your years of experience can be calculated.
  • Passed: Most recent role firstRoles are in reverse-chronological order, the order ATS systems and recruiters expect.
  • Passed: Achievements as bullet points7 bullet points, each short enough to scan.
  • Passed: Plain characters onlyNo emoji, icon fonts or special symbols that could turn into gibberish.
  • Passed: Reading orderThe template is a single column underneath. Sidebars are read after the main column, never mixed into it.
  • Passed: Links written out in fullLinks are shown as readable addresses (so ATS systems read them) and are clickable in the PDF.
  • Passed: Length1 page, within the one-to-two pages most recruiters expect.
  • Note: File formatBoth downloads are ATS-readable: the PDF keeps real, selectable text, and the Word file uses real headings and bullet lists.
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