Operating Room Travel Nursing Jobs

Travel Nurse RN - Operating Room - $34 to $48 per hour in Kansas City, MO - Joining Bonus Available! Relocation Assistance Available! Day Shift & Night Shift Available! Job Title: OR RN Location: Kansas City, MO Available Shift: Days (7a-7p) // Nights (7p-7A) Hourly Pay Range: $34/hr - $48/hr (depending on relevant work experience) Shift Differentials: $4.00 nights and weekends Job Summary: * Culture of mutual respect and collaboration among all surgical staff  * Continuous investment in equipment including surgical instruments, devices and patient positioning for you to do your best work with patient safety and workflow efficiency in the Operating Room  * Rounding with unit leaders, including charge nurses, to ensure your voice is heard on suggestions for patient care and surgical workflow improvement  * Evaluate patients prior to surgery  * Provide patient and family education surrounding the procedure and peri-operative process * Assume responsibility for patient preparation, including intravenous therapy, preoperative medications, and surgical site verification  * Participate in surgical site verification, including briefing, time out, debriefing, and universal protocols, according to hospital policy  * Recognize and respond to patient emergencies  * Deliver high-quality, patient-centered care while managing evidence-based practices and continuous improvement initiatives  * Be an integral member of a dynamic interdisciplinary team – consisting of the provider(s), surgeons, surgical technologists and more  * Consistently apply the nursing process, critical thinking skills, scientific judgment, technical skills and leadership to independently deliver safe nursing care to patients * Assess patient condition, monitor throughout your shift, and document changes in patient condition along with the care provided thoroughly  * Educate patients and families/caregivers about the patient’s medical condition, treatment and follow-up measures

Travel Nurse RN - Operating Room - $1,634 to $2,230 per week in Sitka, AK - The Registered Nurse (RN) provides professional nursing care across the lifespan in accordance with organizational standards, policies, and evidence-based practice. The RN utilizes the nursing process to assess, plan, implement, and evaluate patient care while delivering high-quality, culturally sensitive, and patient-centered services. The RN collaborates with providers and interdisciplinary teams to promote optimal patient outcomes, safety, and positive patient experience. A circulator nurse coordinates perioperative workflow outside the sterile field by preparing the patient, verifying documentation, ensuring equipment readiness, completing safety checklists, and facilitating communication among the surgical team. They serve as the patient’s advocate while maintaining situational awareness, anticipating needs, supporting sterile staff, and documenting key intraoperative events to keep the surgical environment safe and efficient. Circulator nurses are required to participate in on‑call coverage to support urgent and emergent surgical cases.

Travel Nurse RN - Operating Room - $39 to $45 per hour in Overland Park, KS - * Continuous investment in equipment including surgical instruments, devices and patient positioning for you to do your best work with patient safety and workflow efficiency in the Operating Room * Rounding with unit leaders, including charge nurses, to ensure your voice is heard on suggestions for patient care and surgical workflow improvement

Travel Nurse RN - Operating Room - $2,000 to $2,400 per week in Gardner, MA - Job Description: Essential Functions Conducts interactions with everyone in a friendly, courteous and respectful manner. Goes out of his/her way to offer assistance to others. If he/she cannot offer assistance, then finds someone who can. Advocates to ensure privacy and confidentiality while helping others to maintain awareness. Maintains a clean and safe hospital. Responds appropriately and immediately in emergency situations. Maintains a safe and healthy environment for patients, visitors, and/or staff to provide the highest level of physical comfort, and minimize risk and injury. Ensures compliance with regulations to maintain accreditation and licensure. Complies with the Hospital Attendance and Tardiness Policy. Completed all Hospital and Department Specific Mandatory requirements in the prior calendar year. Reports Incidents in a timely and effective manner. All employees with direct patient contact are responsible for actively engaging in the practice of, monitoring and enforcing compliance to hand hygiene. Assesses (and reassesses), plans, implements, and evaluates nursing interventions/plans of care/patient goals. Provides patient care based on standards of care, standards of practice, protocols, and established policies and procedures. Respects each patient as an individual; provides care that fosters the patient’s sense of dignity and positive self-regard. Provides patient/family teaching based on identified learning needs, readiness to learn, and barriers to learning. Collaboratively plans and prepares patient/family for discharge incorporating support systems/resources as necessary. Appropriately delegates and supervises nursing interventions performed by others. Appropriately prioritizes patient care (e.g. seeks assistance as needed from appropriate resources, reassigns personnel as necessary, recognizes need for emergency intervention, etc.). Provides thorough, timely, and accurate documentation of all pertinent data, therapeutic interventions and patient responses according to established standards. Provides timely and thorough report on assigned patients to other health care team members to ensure integration of services and continuity of patient care. Promotes learning for colleagues and self (e.g. functions as preceptor, instructor, trainer, attends professional development programs, etc.). Proactively identifies risk to patient safety and identifies opportunities to reduce medical/health care errors (i.e. appropriate reporting of errors/incidents). Identifies ethical issues in care and develops plan to address. Safely administers medications and intravenous therapy in accordance with physician’s orders, protocols, policies and procedures. Assesses patient pain level upon admission and as necessary, depending upon diagnosis utilizing the numerical pain scale. Reassesses effectiveness of pain control and notifies physicians as needed, as well as, documents assessment and patients’ response to medication. Responsible for obtaining supporting information and completing required documentation related to medication reconciliation for use by the Attending MD. Collaborates with surgeon, anesthesiologist, clinical coordinator and surgical technicians to assure the patients’ well being during surgical intervention. Maintains sterile fields and directs the correct care, handling, and sterilization of sterile supplies and instruments. Identifies patients correctly by checking patient identification bands and consent forms as well as verifying operative procedure and site before taking patients to the operating room. Applies principles of aseptic practice, oversees the selection and preparation of supplies, equipment and instrumentation to all surgical cases. Applies principles of body mechanics and adapts them to various situations during positioning and transfer of patients. Assures that all techniques and practices carried out during the surgical procedure are accurate and reflect standards of perioperative practice. Maintains sponge, needle and instrument counts according to policies and procedures, including notifying the surgeon of the result of the counts. Identifies, labels, cares for and handles all specimens and cultures according to established policy and procedure. Qualifications: Current MA RN License required. ACLS upon hire OR must hold an active BLS card and obtain AHA ACLS within 60 days of hire. Recent OR experience required. CNOR preferred. Excellent communication and critical thinking skills required. Must take call per unit rotation. Minimum Guaranteed Hours: Less than 1 year

Travel Nurse RN - Operating Room - $44 to $61 per hour in Rockford, IL - - # Suites: 15 operating rooms - Average # of cases per day : 25-45 cases/day - Required Certifications (i.e., BLS, ACLS?): "BLS - Current RN licensure by the State Board of Nursing in Illinois. Current American Heart Association HealthCare" - Common Cases    Several specialties that include general, GYN, urology, plastics, robotics, neuro, ortho, spine, EENT, & cardiothoracic - Experience or 'Must have' skills: At least 2-3 years of progressively more responsible OR work experience. Charge experience is required

Travel Nurse RN - Operating Room - $34 to $48 per hour in Kansas City, MO - Job Summary: * Self/preferential scheduling posted four weeks in advance for you to have predictability in your schedule  * Culture of mutual respect and collaboration among all surgical staff  * Continuous investment in equipment including surgical instruments, devices and patient positioning for you to do your best work with patient safety and workflow efficiency in the Operating Room  * Rounding with unit leaders, including charge nurses, to ensure your voice is heard on suggestions for patient care and surgical workflow improvement  * On-call is required during select non-business hours What you will do in this role:  * Evaluate patients prior to surgery  * Provide patient and family education surrounding the procedure and peri-operative process * Assume responsibility for patient preparation, including intravenous therapy, preoperative medications, and surgical site verification  * Participate in surgical site verification, including briefing, time out, debriefing, and universal protocols, according to hospital policy  * Recognize and respond to patient emergencies  * Deliver high-quality, patient-centered care while managing evidence-based practices and continuous improvement initiatives  * Be an integral member of a dynamic interdisciplinary team – consisting of the provider(s), surgeons, surgical technologists and more  * Consistently apply the nursing process, critical thinking skills, scientific judgment, technical skills and leadership to independently deliver safe nursing care to patients * Assess patient condition, monitor throughout your shift, and document changes in patient condition along with the care provided thoroughly  * Educate patients and families/caregivers about the patient’s medical condition, treatment and follow-up measures