Travel Operating Room RN

Job Description & Requirements

• Specialty:
  OR Circulate
• Discipline:
  RN
• Start Date:
  
  07/06/2026
• Duration:
  13 weeks
• 36 hours per week
• Shift:
  12 hours, days
• Employment Type:
  
  Travel

Discipline: Surgery (Operating Room)

Monthly Case Volume: ~500 cases/month

EMR System: Meditech

Patient Ratio: 1:1

• Beds: 10 OR beds/rooms
• Total Staff: ~50
• High-acuity OR setting with trauma designation
• Complex multi-specialty surgical environment

Day Shift:

• 10 RNs (Circulating Nurses)
• 10–14 Scrub Techs

Night Shift:

• 1 RN
• 1 Scrub Tech

Weekend Requirement:

• Must independently run 2 OR rooms

Strong multi-specialty surgical exposure including:

• Orthopedics
• Neuro surgery
• Trauma cases (in-house trauma coverage required)
• DaVinci robotic surgery
• General laparoscopic procedures
• Urology (GU)
• Cardiac / Heart procedures
• Endovascular cases

Candidates will NOT be considered without:

• Minimum 2+ years circulating RN experience
• Strong expertise in:
  • Ortho surgery
  • Neuro surgery
  • Trauma cases
• Ability to independently circulate complex cases
• Experience running multiple OR rooms simultaneously (weekends)

Based on staffing model and OR volume:

• Typical OR operations: 5–6 days/week
• Shift structure (assumed 10-hour OR shifts common in Surgery units)

• Standard full-time RN schedule:
  36–40 hours/week
• Weekend coverage requirement + trauma in-house coverage may increase flexibility needs

• Core weekly assignment: ~36 hours (3x12 or 4x10 shifts equivalent)
• Potential overtime/on-call exposure: 4–8 additional hours/week (based on trauma/case volume spikes)

Total expected workload range: 36–44 hours/week (with occasional higher demand during trauma-heavy weeks)

• Scrub Color:
  Blue

• Weekly pay
• Holiday Pay
• Guaranteed Hours
• Continuing Education
• 401k retirement plan
• Pet insurance
• Referral bonus
• Medical benefits
• Dental benefits
• Vision benefits
• License and certification reimbursement
• Life insurance