Operating Room Travel Nurse - Nashville, TN

This Operating Room travel nurse position in Nashville, Tennessee, with Advantis Medical is a 26-week Travel Operating Room Registered Nurse (RN) contract at Vanderbilt University Medical Center. This role pays $2,329 per week and follows a Nights 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 Tennessee RN License

Vanderbilt University Medical Center — Nashville, TN

Vanderbilt University Medical Center is one of the Southeast's major academic medical centers — a Nashville teaching hospital that serves as the referral hub for the central and southeastern U.S. and admits more than 50,000 inpatients a year.

• The region's only adult and pediatric Level I trauma center, with a dedicated burn unit, concentrating the highest-acuity trauma and critical-care nursing in Middle Tennessee.
• The NCI-designated Vanderbilt-Ingram Cancer Center, an NCI-designated cancer center, for oncology and BMT nursing.
• The Vanderbilt Transplant Center, among the largest and most experienced in the Southeast across adult and pediatric solid-organ transplant.
• Monroe Carell Jr. Children's Hospital — the largest children's hospital in the Southeast — with a Level I pediatric trauma center, a Level IV NICU, and a 42-bed PICU, for pediatric and neonatal RNs.
• A teaching hospital of Vanderbilt's medicine and nursing schools, with 90-plus ambulatory clinics feeding a deep specialty case mix.