Dear Nurse Residency Hiring Team,
In my OB rotation on a Level II maternity unit, I tracked fetal heart monitoring strips and took newborn vital signs while running postpartum assessments, and the work taught me that two patients can share one chart and both need full attention. I am Caleb Whitman, a BSN graduate of Capital University in Columbus who passed the NCLEX-RN in May 2026 and holds an active Ohio RN license along with BLS and ACLS from the American Heart Association. I am applying for the New Graduate Nurse position at Riverside Heights Regional Hospital because I want to start my RN career on a med-surg or step-down unit that hands new grads a genuine assignment and builds their judgment on the floor.
During my senior capstone preceptorship at Riverbend Medical Center, I carried a 4-patient assignment on a 32-bed med-surg unit under a preceptor RN, completing head-to-toe assessments and charting every finding in Epic each shift. Across that 180-hour rotation I administered oral, IV, IM, and subcutaneous medications using barcode scanning and the five rights, with zero medication errors flagged. I built more than 720 clinical hours total, including 120 in the ICU monitoring ventilated and telemetry patients, and I escalated abnormal vital signs and lab values to the charge nurse rather than waiting. I also delivered discharge teaching and confirmed understanding through teach-back, which showed me how much patient safety depends on clear communication.
If I joined your residency cohort, the first thing I would lock in is your charting workflow, since I have documented across both Epic and Cerner in clinicals and would rather match your floor's standard than carry over a habit from school. I live in Columbus and can be on the unit for an interview on short notice, and I can put my preceptor RN and a clinical instructor forward as references who watched me run full shifts. Send me a couple of dates that work and I will be there.