Operating Room Travel Nurse

This Operating Room travel nurse position in Alexandria, Louisiana, with Advantis Medical is a 13-week Travel Operating Room Registered Nurse (RN) contract at Rapides Regional Medical Center. This role pays $2,248 per week and follows a Days shift with a 5x8 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 Louisiana RN License

Rapides Regional Medical Center serves Central Louisiana with emergency, inpatient and surgical care, plus a dedicated women's and children's hospital.

• Trauma care includes neurosurgery coverage and orthopedic trauma services, with hand, oral surgery and urology consultation available for complex injuries.
• General medicine and telemetry care sit alongside medical and surgical ICUs, giving the hospital both inpatient medical care and intensive-care services.
• Inpatient and outpatient surgery includes general, colorectal, gynecologic and bariatric procedures, with robot-assisted options across these specialties.
• Neurosurgery treats complex brain tumors and spine conditions and offers deep brain stimulation. Orthopedic surgery includes hip, knee and shoulder replacement.
• Cardiovascular procedures include coronary angioplasty and stenting, pacemaker implantation, traditional heart surgery and transcatheter aortic valve replacement.
• Rapides Women's and Children's Hospital provides labor and delivery, dedicated C-section operating rooms and postpartum care, with a Level III NICU for ill or premature newborns.

Benefits:

Salary : $2,248