Operating Room Travel Nurse - Asheville, NC

This Operating Room travel nurse position in Asheville, North Carolina, with Advantis Medical is a 13-week Travel Operating Room Registered Nurse (RN) contract at Mission Hospital . This role pays $2,272 per week and follows a Days shift with a 4x10 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 North Carolina RN License

Mission Hospital — Asheville, NC

Mission Hospital is the flagship of Mission Health (part of HCA Healthcare) and the tertiary referral hub for western North Carolina. As the region's only ACS-verified Level I Trauma Center, it gives travelers exposure to complex, high-acuity care across emergency, stroke, NICU, surgical, and specialty services.

• 850+ bed regional referral and acute-care center serving western North Carolina, with a broad and complex case mix
• ACS-verified Level I Trauma Center — the only Level I trauma center serving western North Carolina; expect a fast-paced ED with steady trauma volume
• Magnet-recognized for nursing excellence (most recently renewed in 2025)
• Western NC's only Comprehensive Stroke Center, with a Level III NICU on site
• Named one of Healthgrades' America's 50 Best Hospitals for 11 consecutive years (2016–2026)