In order to convince a hiring manager that you are the best certified nursing assistant out of the pool of people who have applied for the same position, you must write a CNA cover letter and a CNA resume that speaks volumes about your knowledge of the work, and experience in it.

Let us individually focus on how to write both a cover letter, and a resume for a CNA position. Since the resume is always written before the cover letter, let us concentrate on that first.

Your resume will need to host all the sections necessary to make it a hit. Here is a list:

1: Objective or Summary

2: Core Competencies

3: Accomplishments

4: Work Experience

5: Education

6: Certifications

7: Affiliations

Under each heading, you must provide the right information, aimed at convincing the hiring manager to pick up the telephone, and call you immediately.

This is a short snippet of your qualifications as a certified nursing assistant. A few lines outlining how much you know about patient care will suffice.Your knowledge of taking and recording vital signs, and examining and treating patients must be highlighted here. Stick to a maximum of 4 medium length statements here.

In the core competencies part of the resume, you must highlight your skills in short phrases, or words. As a CNA, you will be working directly with patients so it makes sense to use words and phrases such as patient liaison, emergency care, and sanitization.

The most important accomplishments in a nursing role need to be mentioned here. For instance, you can mention that time when you recognized threat to a patient’s life, and took immediate action, thereby saving her / his life.

The experience section is the most straightforward part of the resume. Your last two experiences in a nursing role should be mentioned here. Specifically, you must mention your main duties, including providing direct patient care, taking and recording vitals, administering medication, and providing emergency intervention.

Provide the relevant information in the education, certifications and affiliations sections.

Once the resume is done, you should move on making the CNA cover letter. The resume makes it easy to write a cover letter. Since you have placed all information in one document, you can refer to it in order to obtain required data.

It is important to realize that your cover letter should be about the future. That is to say, what you can do for the prospective employer using your skills and experiences.

Providing information such as knowledge of assisting with daily living (ADL), and ability to look after patients’ physical and emotional needs is important. As important is the capability of recognizing signs of distress, and intervening immediately.

When writing a CNA cover letter, make sure that you follow the introduction, main body, and conclusion format, as you would with any other letter.

Begin by providing information of where you heard about the open position, and then move on to highlighting your best skills and qualifications in this regard.

Use the second and third paragraphs to emphasize how your experiences and skills will be beneficial for the prospective employer.

Close the CNA cover letter with promises to call the hiring manager, and leave your own contact information.