The detail to be included here refers primarily to university and relevant TAFE qualifications. Details of your Secondary School education are not usually necessary. Short courses that you have completed should be listed under the heading “Training and Professional Development”. Career changers who have other higher education qualifications will need to think carefully about whether or not to provide these details. One point of view is you’ve worked hard to achieve your qualifications so they ought to be listed.

An alternative view is that your resume is a sales document; you want the reader to gain a clear, consistent impression that you are a committed health care professional. In making your decision, perhaps evaluate whether your other qualifications will be seen by the employer as adding an important extra dimension to your ability to do the job. For example, if you had a degree in Media Arts specialising in developing computer games, it may be difficult to an employer to understand why/how you ended up in the Nursing profession.

Commencing with your most recent qualifications first i.e. this will be Bachelor of Nursing.

Some people ask do you need to add extra information like your GPA? Generally the answer is ‘no’. However if you have an exceptional GPA, including this information is another way you can differentiate yourself from the competition.