Cerulean resume & CV template
A solid blue band with the name reversed out of it, then blue-ruled headings and three columns of skills.
SUMMARY
Registered nurse with seven years on a 32-bed medical-surgical floor. Charge nurse two years running, and the person who rewrote our handover after we found the misses were all at shift change.
EXPERIENCE
Charge Nurse, Medical-Surgical, St Catherine's Hospital
Apr 2021 – Present
Minneapolis, MN
- Redesigned bedside handover; handover-related incidents fell by just over half in two quarters
- Precepted 6 new-graduate nurses through the residency programme, all retained at 12 months
- Coordinate care for up to 7 patients per shift across a 32-bed unit
Registered Nurse, Medical-Surgical, Lakeview Regional
Jul 2018 – Mar 2021
St Paul, MN
- Cut unit CAUTI rate by 38% as catheter-care champion over an 18-month programme
- Served on the falls-prevention committee that reduced falls with injury by a third
EDUCATION
BSN, Nursing, University of Minnesota
Sep 2014 – May 2018
Minneapolis, MN
SKILLS
- Patient assessment (Expert)
- Wound care (Expert)
- IV therapy (Expert)
- Epic EHR (Expert)
- Care coordination (Expert)
- Telemetry (Advanced)
- Preceptorship (Advanced)
- Discharge planning (Expert)
LANGUAGES
- English (Native)
- Swedish (Native)
- Somali (Conversational)
CERTIFICATES
Registered Nurse (RN), Minnesota, MN Board of Nursing
Jul 2018 – Jul 2018
ACLS + PALS, American Heart Association
Jan 2024 – Jan 2024
What defines this layout
- Sans-serif typeface
- Single column
- No photo
- Headings over a full-width rule
- Dates right-aligned against each role
Every one of these is a setting, not a constraint — accent colour, font, size, spacing and page margins stay yours under Customize, and switching template later re-renders what you’ve written rather than starting it over.
Using Cerulean as a CV
Cerulean needs nothing changed to serve as a UK, Irish or Australian CV — those markets mean by "CV" exactly what the US means by "resume", and this is already that document. Add a photo and personal details only if you are applying into continental Europe.
It sits at a normal density, which lands most histories on the two pages a non-academic CV is expected to fit.
More on the differences: CV templates and CV examples.
Is Cerulean the right choice?
Who it suits
Corporate applications that want colour without a sidebar. The solid band is assertive; everything under it is conventional.
What it does to ATS parsing
Single column with a filled header. Safe.
At two pages
Good, though the second page loses the band and with it most of the personality.
Use something else if
Bulwark for a denser version, or Meridian if the band is more than you want.
Other templates
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