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Role vocabulary

ATS resume keywords for Healthcare & Clinical

These are the 22 terms our scorer checks a Healthcare & Clinical resume against. It is the same list the free check uses, published in full.

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The vocabulary

Coverage is 25 of the 100 points. Sixty percent of this list is full marks, so you do not need all of it, and stuffing every term in is penalised separately.

  • patient care
  • clinical
  • nursing
  • diagnostics
  • treatment plan
  • medical records
  • emr
  • icu
  • opd
  • triage
  • infection control
  • nabh
  • phlebotomy
  • vitals
  • medication administration
  • care plan
  • discharge
  • clinical protocol
  • patient safety
  • multidisciplinary
  • documentation
  • compliance

The eight questions for Healthcare & Clinical

The guided builder asks these, in this order, and turns each answer into a line on the page. Nothing is written that you did not type.

  1. 1.How many patients do you see or care for in a typical shift?
  2. 2.How many beds, chairs or stations does your unit run?
  3. 3.What is your ward, department or specialty, and how many staff are on it?
  4. 4.Which accreditations have you worked under and been audited against?
  5. 5.How many procedures or investigations do you perform in a month?
  6. 6.Any measure that improved because of you, and by how much?
  7. 7.How many junior staff, interns or students have you trained or supervised?
  8. 8.Which systems do you document in, and how much of your shift goes into them?
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Words are the easy half

A resume can carry every term above and still be rejected, because coverage says what you know and nothing about what you delivered. The heaviest category on the rubric is evidence: how many of your bullets carry an actual figure.

Seven in ten is full marks. Most resumes we see manage two.

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