Writing a licensed practical nurse resume

Everything below is counted from 1,376 live licensed practical nurse postings, taken from employers’ own career pages rather than a job board. Nothing here is advice about what usually works. It is what these specific postings say.

Open roles: 1,376
Employers: 130
Remote: 2%
Typical pay: $50k–79k
Verified live (7d): 1,289

What they ask for

Counted across 285 of the most recent 1,376 postings, the ones that named a skill we recognise. A share is of those, not of every posting.

HIPAA59%
OSHA31%
Microsoft Outlook27%
Microsoft Excel6%
CPA4%
LinkedIn3%
Oracle Learning Management3%
Apache Cassandra2%
Microsoft PowerPoint1%
FOLLOW code1%
Microsoft Word1%
Microsoft Visio1%
Adobe Acrobat1%
PHP1%

This is a floor, not a ceiling: the reader behind it only counts terms it recognises, so a skill missing here means it was not matched, not that nobody wants it. Put what you actually have on the page.

Who is hiring right now

BAYADA Home Health Care212
Rochester General Hospital77
TRC Total Renal Care Inc65
(San Diego Post Acute) Pepperbush Holdings, LLC63
GC Geisinger Clinic58
Senior Lifestyle53
Ochsner Clinic Foundation50
Advocate Health, Inc.44
Riverside Hospital, Inc.41
AgeCare36
SSM-SLUH, Inc27
Summit Health Management, LLC27

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