Cover Letter for Registered Nurse

Dear Mr Osei,

For six years I have nursed in the emergency department at Castlemere General, where I led the redesign of triage that cut the average wait for a first assessment from 34 minutes to 19¹. I am applying for the Registered Nurse post in your emergency department.

Your listing asks for experience with children as well as adults, and with teaching. I hold current certification in advanced life support for adults and for children², I am one of two nurses who teach triage to every new starter, and I have supervised eleven student nurses on placement.

The part of the job I care most about is what a frightened family understands while they wait³. I wrote the plain-language card we now hand to relatives, which explains what happens next and why some patients are seen first, and complaints about waiting have fallen in each of the two years since.

Pendle Cross sees twice as many patients a year as Castlemere and runs its own children's area. I would like to bring what I have learned to a department of that size.

I would be glad to talk through the triage project and what I would do differently. I can be reached on any weekday afternoon.

Yours sincerely, Hanna Kowalczyk