New Graduate Nurse Cover Letter Example

Across 2,300 placement hours and my first months as a registered nurse, the habit that has kept my patients safest is asking for help early. I am an adult nurse on the Nursing and Midwifery Council register, and I am applying for a staff nurse post on the new acute medical unit at Carse Valley Hospital.

On a 28-bed medical ward I look after eight patients a shift. I passed the ward's medicine check at the first attempt and now give medicines on every shift, and I complete observation rounds on time, passing any change to the senior nurse at once. At handover I introduced a fluid chart check for my bay, which cut missed charts from six a week to one.

Carse Valley is staffing its new unit partly with nurses in their first year, and keeping a named mentor and regular case review means I can move to acute medicine without losing the support that has helped me most. My first six months were spent alongside a named senior nurse, and I learn best that way. I already support families with updates on visiting and discharge, and before qualifying I spent two years as a healthcare assistant in a care home, supporting 15 residents with washing, meals and mobility.

Shadowing a late shift on one of your medical wards would show me how your team hands over, and I could talk you through my fluid chart check while there. My question is which patients the new unit will admit first: straight from the emergency department, or from the wards.