Operating Room Travel Nurse - Des Moines, IA

This Operating Room travel nurse position in Des Moines, Iowa, with Advantis Medical is a 13-week Travel Operating Room Registered Nurse (RN) contract at UnityPoint Health - Iowa Methodist Medical Center. This role pays $2,580 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 Iowa RN License

UnityPoint Health — Iowa Methodist Medical Center — Des Moines, IA

UnityPoint Health – Iowa Methodist Medical Center is a 370-bed non-profit regional medical center and teaching hospital in Des Moines, open since 1901 and the leading adult and pediatric trauma center in central Iowa.

• An ACS-verified Level I Adult Trauma Center in central Iowa, with LifeFlight, paired with a Level II Pediatric Trauma Center at Blank Children's Hospital.
• Blank Children's Hospital with a PICU and a Level III NICU (a Level III Perinatal Center).
• A cardiac-surgery program (including open-heart surgery) with a cardiac cath lab and coronary care unit.
• The John Stoddard Cancer Center and the Iowa Methodist Transplant Center (kidney transplants).
• Comprehensive physical rehabilitation at the Younker Rehabilitation Center, plus neurosurgery and birth-care services.