Hi,

Im starting my C.V. for AHPRA and also im attending a recruitment information day in Manchester next week.... (im a community/family/school nurse, most of work being completed within the home) just a few questions;

How long is yours???? I seem to have lots of information on my CV how many pages should it be? Mine seems to go on forever - not very reader friendly.

Clinical/procedual skills - working in the community alot of my work involves child protection/safeguarding, public health education etc so very different to what would be seen as a 'hospital clinical skill' - is there any community nurses who could help with what i should put in this section?? Do I just list what I do within my day to day work ie assessment, identified needs and careplan, evaluation???
Education, sexual health screening etc???

Any info would be great as its a working progress and examples would be good from anyone with this type of nursing experience and CV.

Thx in advance

Hi,

Have PM'd you; but what's the recruitment day thingy?

Thanks

Do you do any of the following? immunisation? breastfeeding advice? nutrition/infant feeding/growth monitoring? Family planning/contraceptive advice? any screening (vision/hearing etc) And blood spots?

Hi Gilraenh,

What you describe there is predominently what a Health Visitor does. Some School nurses do imms and a bit of growth monitoring.

Thanks, Alli

Thank you for telling me that.

I am a HV and have been a school nurse.

I am not sure what you are pointing out though as I was responding to the OP question???

The OP said she was a SN and you asked if she did certain skills; I was merely pointing out they were predominantly HV skills.....hence my reply!

I was replying to the OP, thank you for keeping me right about what that OP was looking for.

Hi,

thanks for the replies and PM

I'm a paediatric nurse and specialist community public health nurse - school health. I have previously worked as a school nurse and currently i work for local authority with specific focus on supporting pregnant teenagers, teenage parents and their children over a number of years. So am dealing with 13-18 year old parents with children or due to have them so tends to cross over between school health, health visiting and youth work roles and a bit of social work lol

So skill wise i tend to assess, advise and support on all issues - from breast feeding, smoking cessation, health in pregnancy, advice around infant feeding/weaning, parenting, behaviour management alongside most things that come up such as sexual health/family planning/contraception, benefits, education etc. In my current role i don't complete blood tests or immunisation's although have done previously.

The 'recruitment event' is in Manchester tomorrow so will have a wonder along but think it will probably be full of hospital based nurse recruitment, i guess looking wont hurt - i hope!

I have managed to refine my CV and list skills utilised on a daily basis

Shelz is that the health careers event?

If you are still 'competent' to deliver immunisation include it. Promoting them would be a part of your role too.

thanks,

yes it was a health careers event, they had visa and immigration there too, wasnt quite what i was expecting as lots of queues everywhere depending on the area of Australia you wanted to work in. They were adveertising jobs for nurses and allied health professions.

Interesting and made a couple of contacts including another nurse who had just submitted her AHPRA forms and has visited Australia a few times - so was nice to chat.

Would have been better if AHPRA were represented there (i could bombard them with my queries and questions haha)

Just need to get my registration sorted - now i have done my CV, next is my statement of employment then my CPD stuff, so will probably be posting questions about those soon lol x
One step at a time...

Good luck, I was at the Dublin event and couldn't believe the queues!

I think the APHRA queue would be too long to take just one day