Dear Nurse Recruiter,
At Nationwide Children's Hospital, my pediatric and maternal-newborn rotation taught me to calculate weight-based dosing for a second nurse to verify before any medication reached a child. I am a BSN student at The Ohio State University College of Nursing, graduating in May 2027 with a 3.7 GPA and my NCLEX-RN already booked for June. That rotation also had me supporting newborn assessments, leading breastfeeding and discharge teaching with the unit RN, and reporting status changes to the charge nurse in SBAR format. I am applying to your residency because I want to bring that habit of checking my own work to a med-surg or telemetry floor at Scioto Valley Regional Medical Center.
I have completed 540 supervised clinical hours, including 180 on a 32-bed medical-surgical unit at OhioHealth Riverside Methodist Hospital, where I cared for an average of four patients per shift under RN preceptor supervision. On that rotation I performed head-to-toe assessments, charted vital signs and intake and output in Epic, and administered oral and subcutaneous medications using the five rights with barcode scanning. As a patient care technician on a telemetry floor at Mount Carmel Health System, I track vital signs, blood glucose, and intake and output for up to 12 patients per shift and report abnormal findings to the licensed nurses promptly, so the pace of a telemetry assignment is already familiar to me.
A resident who arrives with an Ohio STNA credential, a current American Heart Association BLS card, and rotation exposure across pediatric, maternal-newborn, and behavioral health takes less coaching through the basics, which leaves more of orientation for building clinical judgment at the bedside. I can send my full rotation log and a faculty reference from the College of Nursing ahead of any conversation. I am open most weekday mornings for a call about your new graduate cohort.