Licensed Practical Nurse Cover Letter Example

Zero medication errors across the last two years, and a third fewer resident falls on my unit, both come from habits I keep on every day shift at Chickahominy Bend Care Center. I am a Licensed Practical Nurse with an active Virginia license, applying for your day-shift post at Wyndle Creek Care Center.

I care for 24 residents under the supervising registered nurse, giving medications, treatments and wound care, and I record each dose at the moment I give it rather than at the end of the pass. On the falls team I lead hourly safety rounds on my shift and review every fall within a day; over a year the unit's falls came down by a third. When a resident's condition changes, I update the care plan and brief the oncoming nurse at handover.

Wyndle Creek Care Center's new short-stay wing is what made me apply. Before long-term care I spent two years at Commonwealth Rehabilitation Hospital with 18 patients recovering from joint surgery, tracking pain, mobility and wound healing, and I have missed seeing people go home on their own feet. You also want a nurse who will teach families and precept new practical nurses. I teach families wound care and mobility routines at care conferences and before short-stay residents leave, and I have precepted two new practical nurses through their first eight weeks.

Working a day shift alongside your team before you decide would let us both judge the fit. My one question is how you plan to staff the 20-bed wing when it opens, and whether day nurses will rotate into it.