Operating Room Travel Nurse

This Operating Room travel nurse position in Odessa, Texas, with Advantis Medical is a 13-week Travel Operating Room Registered Nurse (RN) contract at Medical Center Hospital. This role pays $2,211 per week and follows a Days shift with a 3x12 schedule.

As the Operating Room registered nurse on this assignment, you'll circulate surgical cases, verify patients, sites, and counts, participate in surgical time-outs, and safeguard sterile technique from setup through handoff to recovery.

Advantis Medical supports travel clinicians with streamlined credentialing to help with fast start dates, free license support and renewals, and Day 1 benefits.

Responsibilities

• Circulate for surgical procedures and, when trained and assigned, perform the scrub role across assigned service lines
• Advocate for patient safety under anesthesia, verifying required consent and site documentation and participating in surgical time-outs
• Monitor and protect the sterile field, performing and reconciling instrument, sponge, and sharps counts with the perioperative team
• Anticipate surgeon and team needs, managing supplies, equipment, positioning, and specimen handling per facility protocol

Travel Nursing Requirements:

• 2 years of recent Operating Room nursing experience
• Active Texas RN License

Medical Center Hospital — Odessa, TX

Medical Center Hospital is an acute care hospital serving Odessa and the surrounding Permian Basin through Medical Center Health System.

• The hospital provides emergency care for all ages and is designated a Level II trauma facility by the Texas Department of State Health Services.
• Its coronary care unit treats heart attacks, unstable angina, arrhythmias and heart failure, including patients needing continuous IV medications to manage heart rate or blood pressure.
• Telemetry care includes recovery after coronary bypass and valve surgery. Cardiac services also include coronary catheterization, angioplasty and stenting.
• Surgical services cover trauma, general, neuro-spine, vascular, orthopedic and urologic procedures. Robotic techniques are available for gynecologic, bariatric, urologic and general surgery.
• The Center for Women & Infants provides labor and delivery, mother-baby care and maternal-fetal medicine for complex pregnancies. Its Level III NICU serves high-risk newborns from the region.

Benefits:

Salary : $2,211