Operating Room Travel Nurse - New Orleans, LA

This Operating Room travel nurse position in New Orleans, Louisiana, with Advantis Medical is a 8-week Travel Operating Room Registered Nurse (RN) contract at Ochsner Medical Center. This role pays $2,475 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 Louisiana RN License

Ochsner Medical Center — New Orleans, LA

Ochsner Medical Center on Jefferson Highway is the flagship of Ochsner Health and one of a small group of hospitals nationwide to earn Magnet five times — a 767-bed tertiary center built around transplant, cardiac, and complex surgical care just outside New Orleans.

• A five-time ANCC Magnet recipient and U.S. News's best hospital in Louisiana for over a decade — a strong nursing-practice and referral-center environment.
• Three centers of excellence shape the specialty units: the Multi-Organ Transplant Center, the Heart & Vascular Institute, and the Cancer Institute.
• Every heart transplant in Ochsner Health happens here, alongside advanced heart-failure care that includes the SynCardia total artificial heart.
• A 767-bed tertiary hospital teaching through the University of Queensland–Ochsner clinical program.
• Maternity and a NICU at the Women's Pavilion at Ochsner Baptist add women's and newborn tracks.