How to write a nurse CV in Bangladesh

A nursing CV is judged on two things a recruiter checks in the first ten seconds: that you are registered, and that you have worked the kind of unit they are hiring for. Everything else supports those two facts.

Put your registration in the header

Your Bangladesh Nursing and Midwifery Council registration number belongs in the contact line, beside your phone and email — not buried in a certifications section on page two. A nursing recruiter is screening for it before they read anything else, and a CV that makes them hunt is a CV that gets set down.

If you also hold BLS or ACLS certification, name the provider and the year. These expire, and an undated certification reads as an expired one.

Name the unit, the beds and the ratio

"Worked in ICU" tells a hiring manager nothing. "Senior staff nurse on a 24-bed general ICU, 1:2 nurse-to-patient ratio, ventilated patients" tells them whether you can do their job.

Specifics that carry weight:

• Unit type and bed count
• Nurse-to-patient ratio you actually carried
• Whether the unit is ventilated, post-operative, paediatric, emergency
• Shift pattern, if it was unusual
• Systems you documented in

Write clinical achievements, not duties

The commonest weakness in a nursing CV is a list of tasks every nurse performs. Administering medication is not an achievement; it is the job.

What is an achievement:

• "Reduced catheter-associated infections on the unit by revising the line-care checklist, adopted department-wide the following year."
• "Precepted 14 newly qualified nurses across two intake cycles."
• "Identified and escalated 6 medication interaction errors in one year."

If you do not have numbers, say what changed without one. Never invent a figure — infection rates are the kind of claim an interviewer will probe.

Competencies belong in a scannable block

Recruiters scan for procedure names. Group them rather than writing prose: patient assessment and triage, IV cannulation and therapy, wound care, ECG interpretation, ventilator monitoring, infection prevention, patient and family education.

Use the full term at least once. A parser searching for "electrocardiogram" will not match "ECG" alone, so write "ECG (electrocardiogram)" the first time.

If you are applying abroad

Nursing is one of the most internationally mobile professions, and the CV conventions differ sharply:

• Gulf states usually expect a photo, date of birth and passport details. Registration with the destination authority — DHA, HAAD, MOH, SNB — matters more than your Bangladeshi registration, so lead with it if you have it.
• UK and Ireland expect no photo and no personal details beyond contact. NMC registration or an application in progress should be stated plainly.
• Australia follows the same pattern with AHPRA.

Do not send one CV everywhere. The photo alone can cost you an application in the UK and cost you one in Riyadh by its absence.

A template built for this

The Ward template is a compact single column that fits a long clinical history onto one page, with registration and competencies near the top. The Clinic template is roomier if you have publications, rotations or a longer education section.

Both are single column, which is what you want for any hospital using an applicant tracking system. When you are done, run it through the ATS checker.