Travel Nurse RN - Cardiovascular Operating Room - $2,893 per week in Des Moines, IA

Registered Nurse (RN) | Cardiovascular Operating Room
Location: Des Moines, IA
Agency: talent4health
Pay: $2,893 per week
Shift Information: Days - 4 days x 10 hours
Contract Duration: 26 Weeks
Start Date: 9/14/2026

About the Position

Quickly interviewing viable candidates: Phone call/text from a 405 area code

Local Radius rule: 50 miles, 10% reduction to bill rate

Employee Separation Policy : Any past employee of UPH whether FTE, or PRN for the UPH float pool, cannot work travel in another Market no matter which facility they currently work at, or have worked at within the past 12 months. If they worked travel at UPH (not FTE or PRN), the separation policy does not apply

HOLIDAY update: unless the Unit is closed, your contractor is required to work 1-2 of 3 upcoming Summer holidays (Memorial Day, Independence Day, Labor Day)

• NBO: 16 hrs
• EMR : EPIC
• OT/Holiday: 1.15x multiplier
• Call Back: 1.5x multiplier with 2 hr CB minimum
• On Call: $9/hr
• Charge/Precept : $6/hr

Billable OT: 

• 36-40 hrs/week, OT billable after 40
• 48 hrs/week, OT billable after 48

UNIT Info

• Patient Types: see submission requirements
• Patient Ratios: 1:1
• Bed Size: 16
• Scrubs: provided

Avg. caseload – Average 35-50 cases per day. Expectation for turnovers is less than 20 minutes.
Special equipment – 3 Davinci robots. Use Stealth technology for Neuro navigation and use primarily Synthes or Stryker for ortho trauma. We don’t do many ortho joints. 
How many suites – 16 OR’s. Run from 12-14 routinely. As a level 1 trauma center, we reserve space for traumas.
Service lines - Cardiac/ PV, Neuro, ortho (primarily trauma), robotics, gyn, uro, general, pediatrics, transplants. We do a small volume of ENT and plastic procedures. 
Scrub or Circulate – both would be preferred.
Other – the call for weekends is from end of shift on Friday until 0630am Monday.

• Approximately 2-3 weeks in general OR rooms to get familiar with the department and to get comfortable circulating with proper resources.
• Approximately 2 weeks circulating and scrubbing in vascular, because our CVOR call includes vascular.
• Then on to circulating heart cases, starting to take heart shadow call, and moving into scrubbing once comfortable with the circulating flow in our rooms. 

For the first 6 weeks before RNs are ready to take call for cardiac, RNs do general call for the department. We are staffed 24 hours per day, and our charge nurses would not put RNs into cases that we would not expect any circulator to be able to do or RNs would be a second set of hands in a large case needing extra help.

• Traveler will be required to float across all campuses; Iowa Methodist MC, Iowa Lutheran & Iowa Methodist

Requirements

Required for Onboarding

• Basic Life Saver (CPR, BLS)
• Core Concepts in Healthcare - Nursing
• RN - Cardiovascular Operating Room (CVOR)
• RN -Cardiovascular Operating Room (CVOR) (skills)