Med Surg Travel Nurse - Alexandria, LA

This Med Surg travel nurse position in Alexandria, Louisiana, with Advantis Medical is a 13-week Travel Med Surg Registered Nurse (RN) contract at Rapides Regional Medical Center. This role pays $2,157 per week and follows a Nights shift with a 3x12 schedule.

As the Med Surg registered nurse on this assignment, you'll prioritize care across a varied medical-surgical caseload, administer ordered medications and treatments, educate patients and families, and manage admissions, discharges, and safe care transitions.

Advantis Medical supports travel clinicians with streamlined credentialing to help with fast start dates, free license support and renewals, and Day 1 benefits.

Responsibilities

• Manage a varied caseload of patients with acute and chronic medical-surgical conditions, including postoperative care when assigned
• Perform thorough assessments and monitor for changes in condition, escalating concerns promptly
• Administer medications, IV therapy, and treatments as ordered
• Coordinate admissions, discharges, and transfers with the interdisciplinary care team

Travel Nursing Requirements

• 2+ years of recent Med Surg 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.