How to find Nurse Practitioners with Boolean search strings

Generic search string to find Nurse Practitioners

Build search according to your needs:

• -job -jobs -sample -examples, to avoid irrelevant results
• (intitle:resume OR intitle:cv), to discover candidates’ online resumes or CVs
• (“nurse practitioner” OR NP), to cover variations of the same job title

Here’s an example of a generic search string that you can further modify to find resumes:

(intitle:resume OR intitle:cv) (“nurse practitioner” OR NP) -job -jobs -sample -examples

When running this command using Google, you will get results that include the words “resume” or “CV” in the page title. Adding variations of titles will provide a larger number of relevant results. And, excluding more terms reduces false positives.

Searching for profiles of Nurse Practitioners

Use Boolean search on Google to discover Nurse Practitioners in their social profiles. Include the site: operator and terms found exclusively on member profiles. For example:

• site:meetup.com “nurse practitioner” “member since”
• site:allnurses.com “most active topics” (“nurse practitioner” OR NP)
• site:facebook.com inurl:about “nurse practitioner” -intitle:group -intitle:association

If you get the same type of irrelevant results with each search, use the NOT (“-”) operator to exclude those results. Add more criteria in your search to find profiles that better match your requirements.

When sourcing EU candidates, please refer to guidance on using social media for recruiting and collecting candidate information as per the General Data Protection Regulation, or GDPR.

Examples of Boolean search strings to find Nurse Practitioners by experience

Find Nurse Practitioners who:

Have a specific classification

(intitle:resume OR intitle:cv) (“acute care nurse practitioner” OR ACNP) -job -jobs -sample -examples

Are specialized in an area of care

(intitle:resume OR intitle:cv) “nurse practitioner” cardiology -job -jobs -sample -examples

(intitle:resume OR intitle:cv) “nurse practitioner” (“emergency care” OR “emergency room” OR ER) -job -jobs -sample -examples

Possess a doctorate

(intitle:resume OR intitle:cv) “nurse practitioner” (doctorate OR PhD) -job -jobs -sample -examples

Sample string to search for resumes of Nurse Practitioners in various formats

(intitle:resume OR intitle:cv) (filetype:pdf OR filetype:doc OR filetype:txt) “nurse practitioner” -job -jobs -sample -templates

Examples of Boolean search strings to find Nurse Practitioners by location

By state or city:

(intitle:resume OR intitle:cv) “nurse practitioners” (California OR CA) -job -jobs -sample -examples

(intitle:resume OR intitle:cv) “nurse practitioner” Boston (Massachusetts OR MA) -job -jobs -sample -examples

By area codes:

(intitle:resume OR intitle:cv) “nurse practitioner” (Washington OR WA) (206 OR 425) -job -jobs -sample -templates

Find area codes here.