LPN Resume Examples for New Grads Through Charge Nurses

Open with a short LPN summary

Write three to four sentences that name your license and years, your patient or resident load, one or two systems you use, and the role you are targeting. If you are new, use your clinical rotation hours in place of years. Lead with what you have done at the bedside, not what you want from the employer.

Licensed Practical Nurse with 8 years in skilled nursing, carrying a 24 to 28 resident medication pass per shift. Skilled in medication administration, wound care, and catheter care, charting in PointClickCare under RN direction. Holds an active state LPN license and BLS. Targeting a senior LPN role in skilled nursing.

Lead experience with medications, wound care, and patient load

The work an LPN resume is hired for is concrete, so name it and attach one modest number to each bullet. Open every line with a strong verb, never "Responsible for".

• Medication pass: state the size, like administering scheduled and PRN medications for 24 to 28 residents per shift.
• Wound care: name what you did, such as performing dressing changes and reporting healing changes to the RN.
• Skilled tasks: name the specialty work, like inserting Foley catheters or managing gastrostomy tube feedings.
• Monitoring: use outcomes an LPN owns, such as checking blood glucose and giving sliding-scale insulin per order.

List your LPN license, NCLEX-PN, and certifications the right way

This is the section a nurse manager reads first, so get the exact wording right.

• List your state LPN license and the board, like "Licensed Practical Nurse, Ohio Board of Nursing", with a current date.
• New grads state the exam precisely: "passed the NCLEX-PN in June 2026" or "scheduled to sit for the NCLEX-PN" on a date.
• Add BLS from the issuer (American Heart Association) and keep the date current, plus IV therapy where your state allows it.
• Add role-specific credentials where you have them: wound care (WCC), PALS for pediatrics, or CPI for behavioral health.

Match your skills to the posting's keywords

An LPN skills list should read like the job description. Split it so a hiring manager and a parser both find what they need.

• Clinical care: medication administration, wound care, catheter care, tube feeding, and vital signs.
• Monitoring: blood glucose, sliding-scale insulin, intake and output, and change-in-condition reporting to the RN.
• Skilled tasks: phlebotomy, specimen collection, IV site management, and immunizations where the setting uses them.
• Systems: name the EHR outright, like PointClickCare, MatrixCare, Epic, Cerner, or eClinicalWorks, matching the posting.

Keep the resume inside LPN scope (the honest rule)

The fastest way to lose a nurse reviewer's trust is to claim work reserved for the RN. Match the resume to what an LPN is licensed and supervised to do.

• LPNs work under RN or MD supervision. Use medication administration, wound care, catheter and tube-feeding care, and monitoring.
• Do not write the initial nursing assessment, care-plan initiation, or independent triage decisions; those are RN scope.
• Say you collect data, monitor, and report changes to the RN, and that you reinforce teaching rather than start it.
• Skip IV push medications on the resume unless your state allows them for LPNs, and never imply RN-level judgment calls.

Keep it to one clean, ATS-safe page

Hospitals and long-term care facilities run applicant tracking systems, so a clean one-page resume is the standard for almost every LPN.

• Use a single-column or simple two-column layout with standard headings a parser recognizes.
• Hold it to one page and lead with your most recent role in reverse-chronological order.
• Save as a PDF so the formatting holds, then run it through our ATS resume checker for a quick format and keyword pass.
• Swap the numbers in the templates above for your own patient load, license, and systems; do not copy them as is.

What should an LPN resume include?

An LPN resume needs your contact details, a short summary, your state LPN license and BLS, work history in reverse-chronological order, education with your practical nursing program, and a skills list. Lead each role with your medication pass size and the bedside work you did: medication administration, wound care, catheter and tube-feeding care, vital signs, and blood glucose monitoring, all under RN supervision. Name the EHR you charted in, such as PointClickCare, MatrixCare, Epic, or Cerner. Keep it to one clean page.

How do I write a new grad LPN resume with no experience?

Lead with your license and NCLEX-PN status, then your clinical rotation hours instead of paid years. State your practical nursing program and hours, like 640 supervised clinical hours across med-surg and long-term care, and the bedside skills you practiced there: medication administration, wound care, and vital signs under RN supervision. Put your LPN license and BLS near the top. Fill the page honestly with a prior CNA role, a clinical rotation, or volunteering rather than padding. The new grad example above shows the shape.

What skills should I put on an LPN resume?

Split your skills so a hiring manager and a parser both find what they need. Clinical care: medication administration, wound care, catheter care, tube feeding, and vital signs. Monitoring: blood glucose, sliding-scale insulin, intake and output, and change-in-condition reporting to the RN. Skilled tasks: phlebotomy, specimen collection, IV site management, and immunizations where the setting uses them. Finally, name the EHR you use, like PointClickCare or Epic, matching the words in the job posting.

How do I list my LPN license and NCLEX-PN on a resume?

List your state LPN license with the board and a current date, like "Licensed Practical Nurse, Texas Board of Nursing". If you are a new grad, state the exam precisely: "passed the NCLEX-PN in June 2026" once you have your result, or "scheduled to sit for the NCLEX-PN" on a date if it is pending. Never write "currently sitting for", since an exam is sat once on a date. Add BLS from the American Heart Association and IV therapy certification where your state allows it.

Can an LPN say they did patient assessments on a resume?

Not the initial nursing assessment, which is RN scope. An LPN collects focused data, monitors patients, and reports changes to the RN, so phrase it that way rather than claiming the full assessment or care-plan initiation. LPNs administer medications, do wound care, insert catheters, manage tube feedings, take vitals, and reinforce teaching, all under RN or MD supervision. Keeping the resume inside LPN scope is what makes a nurse reviewer trust it, so skip triage decisions and IV push medications unless your state clearly allows them.

How long should an LPN resume be?

One page for almost every LPN, including new grads and those with under five years. Lead with your most recent role and keep the experience and results that matter for the unit you are targeting, summarizing or dropping older jobs to make room for your medication pass, wound care, and the EHR the posting names. Senior or charge LPNs with a long history and many certifications can run to a second page, but a single skimmable page reads best and parses cleanly.