Career Chapters
A scrapbook of the moves that made your career.
Vol. 01 · 2017—2026
first shift, ever
Aug 2017
first travel — Phoenix
Mar 2019
CCRN. finally.
Nov 2020
moved to Denver
Spring 2022
charge for the first time
Jul 2024
what counts as a chapter
Anything worth remembering.
Even the small stuff.
Recording · 0:24
“…signed the Phoenix agency contract today, $68 an hour, first travel assignment. Excited but nervous!”
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A new job.
Your first shift, a unit transfer, a promotion, a contract that changed everything.
Med-surg · ICU · NICU · ER · OR
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A cert earned.
NCLEX, CCRN, CEN, BSN, MSN, NP. The exams you swore you’d never take again.
Pass dates · Letters earned
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A raise or move.
The negotiation that worked. The travel contract that paid for the down payment.
$/hr deltas · Bonus seasons
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A moment.
The save you can’t talk about at home. The mentor who changed how you charted.
Wins · Losses · Inside jokes
the pay arc
And the arc writes itself.
It writes itself, chapter by chapter. Click any era to look closer; hover a moment to see what changed.
Your Career Arc
$28.40 → $62.75 / hr
9 pay events · 4 eras. +121% since your first shift. Click an era to zoom in.
Sample data — Mara’s nine years. Yours will draw from your verified salary history.
how it works
Five minutes a month.
Years documented.
No journaling muscle required. Talk to your phone, drop a photo, let Jemma find the through-line.
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CaptureTalk it out — 30 seconds.
Hit record, share the details. Jemma transcribes it and pulls out the date, place, and the emotions.
Recording · 0:24
“…signed the Phoenix agency contract today, $68 an hour, first travel assignment. Excited but nervous!”
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PinAdd a photo.
The first job, the road trip, the new offer. Pin your favorite photos.
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ReflectJemma finds the arc.
Once you’ve got a few chapters, Jemma will find the story within the chapters: pay growth, specialty shifts, eras you didn’t realize you were in.
Insight · Era detected
“Your travel era ran 31 months. Your hourly rose +58%across four contracts.”
your timeline
Read your career like a scrapbook.
Eras, not just years. Your chapters cluster naturally — a travel run, a school stretch, the bedside years — and the shape of your career shows itself.
Started Nursing School
Two years, one Anki deck, and a lot of coffee.
Cohort photo · Lone StarStarted Nursing School
2015
- DegreeADN
- Debt added$14,000
Lone Star College, Houston
The Day It All Started
First day as a real nurse. Hands shaking, heart full.
Locker-room mirror · MemorialThe Day It All Started
2018
who uses it
For the memories already created — and the ones still to come.
Whether you’re three shifts in or thirty years deep, your story is worth keeping.
Stop forgetting where you’ve been.
You’ve worked four units, three hospitals, two cities. Your résumé tells one version. Chapters tells the real one.
“I forgot I’d been a charge nurse on nights for six months until I scrolled back.”— Mara, ICU · Denver
Start the book on day one.
From clinicals to first shift, capture it as it happens. Future-you will be so glad current-you did.
“My pinning ceremony, my first IV, my first code. It’s all in there.”— Devon, BSN ’25
Hand the next nurse a map.
Print the volume. Pass it to your kid heading into nursing school. A career you can hold in your hands.
“Thirty-one years. I printed it. My granddaughter starts clinicals next fall.”— Pat, retired CRNA
what’s in the book
The tools to document your nursing career.
Not social media. Just you, your career, and a place that keeps it.
Voice capture
30-second voice notes, transcribed and tagged. Hands stay open for charting.
Photo polaroids
Drop in badges, scrubs days, screenshots. We frame them like the keepsakes they are.
Pay arc
Every rate change plotted on one quiet line. Linked to your Jemma salary verifications.
Career eras
Group your chapters into the stretches that defined them — staff years, travel runs, school, leadership.
Jemma’s summary
Once you’ve got a few chapters, Jemma reads your timeline and writes back the through-line — eras, turning points, what you’ve actually built.
Yours only
Private by default. No social feed, no shareable scoreboard. You decide if anyone sees it.
pricing
Your career deserves a better story teller.
Photo upload, voice capture, and Jemma’s career insights — included in Jemma Pro, Student, and Retired Nurse subscription plans.
Start your chapters
998 founding spots left · $39/yr after
No credit card required to create an account. The founding rate ($29/yr) is reserved for the first 1,000 paid Pro members and locks in on your first paid charge. Cancel anytime, full refund within 14 days.
Career Chapters FAQs
Is this another social network?
No. Career Chapters is private by default — no feed, no followers, no scoreboard. Share with one person, a small group, or no one. Your call.
Do I need to write anything?
Not a word, if you don't want to. Voice notes get transcribed and tagged automatically. The app is built for nurses with twelve-hour shifts, not journalers.
What happens to my data?
It stays yours. We don't sell it, share it with hospitals, or hand any of it to recruiters. If you want to share with family or a mentor, you pick exactly which chapters they see.
Can I add chapters from before Jemma?
Yes — start anywhere. A lot of nurses backfill the big stuff (NCLEX date, first job, certs) in one sitting, then add as they go.
How do I get access?
It's included with Jemma Pro ($29/yr founding rate for the first 1,000 paid Pro members, $39/yr for the next 4,000) and the Jemma Student Plan ($19/yr). Sign up and subscribe whenever you're ready — Pro requires a nurse account, Student Plan requires a student account.
Does it connect to my pay data?
If you've verified rates in the salary explorer, those flow into your pay arc automatically. Nothing else gets shared the other direction.
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your first chapter
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…then the next
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and the one after
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