Operating Room Travel Nurse

Travel Operating Room Nurse in Nashville, TN

This Operating Room travel nurse job in Nashville, Tennessee, with Advantis Medical is a 26-week Travel Operating Room Registered Nurse (RN) contract at Vanderbilt University Medical Center. This role pays $2,328 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 Operating Room Requirements:

• 2+ years of recent Operating Room experience.
• Must hold all required certifications and licenses as mandated by Tennessee and national regulatory bodies.

Vanderbilt University Medical Center Nashville, TN

Nashville, TN

Vanderbilt University Medical Center is one of the Southeast's major academic medical centers a Nashville teaching hospital that serves as the referral hub for the central and southeastern U.S. and admits more than 50,000 inpatients a year.

• The region's only adult and pediatric Level I trauma center, with a dedicated burn unit, concentrating the highest-acuity trauma and critical-care nursing in Middle Tennessee.
• The NCI-designated Vanderbilt-Ingram Cancer Center, an NCI-designated cancer center, for oncology and BMT nursing.
• The Vanderbilt Transplant Center, among the largest and most experienced in the Southeast across adult and pediatric solid-organ transplant.
• Monroe Carell Jr. Children's Hospital the largest children's hospital in the Southeast with a Level I pediatric trauma center, a Level IV NICU, and a 42-bed PICU, for pediatric and neonatal RNs.
• A teaching hospital of Vanderbilt's medicine and nursing schools, with 90-plus ambulatory clinics feeding a deep specialty case mix.

Benefits

• Day One Benefits, Medical, Dental, Vision & 401(k)
• Relocation and Travel Reimbursement
• Dedicated team to help with state licensing & renewals
• Weekly Direct Deposit
• $1,000 Referral Bonus + $250 Bonus for Your Referral

Licensing in Tennessee

Compact license accepted. Tennessee is a Nurse Licensure Compact state, and our team handles endorsement and renewals for you.

Explore Nashville, TN

For its size, Nashville, TN carries a dense hospital footprint, anchored by Vanderbilt University Medical Center and Ascension Saint Thomas across several clinical districts. Large inpatient units and surgical suites lean on travel nurses through the year, with coverage holding across the seasons. Many travelers settle in Brentwood, Franklin, or Hendersonville to stay close to the metro while skirting the heaviest traffic corridors. When workdays end, the Cumberland River Greenway and the streets of 12South are quick ways to decompress without committing to a whole-day outing, which suits a packed rotation. Traffic is the catch here. With it the main variable, travelers tend to pick housing for the drive rather than the address.

Travel Nursing Jobs With Advantis Medical The Gold Standard

At Advantis Medical Staffing, we take great pride in our commitment to caring for travel nurses. We are dedicated to connecting nurses with the best travel nursing jobs nationwide, while providing exceptional service that fosters a trusted partnership for life. Our mission is to deliver the "Gold Standard" in servicenot only by securing your first assignment but by advocating for your long-term career goals and well-being.

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