Operating Room Travel Nurse - Lexington, KY

This Operating Room travel nurse position in Lexington, Kentucky, with Advantis Medical is a 14-week Travel Operating Room Registered Nurse (RN) contract at UK Albert B Chandler Hospital (AKA Kentucky Hospital). This role pays $2,207 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 Kentucky RN License

University of Kentucky Albert B. Chandler Hospital (UK HealthCare) — Lexington, KY

The Albert B. Chandler Hospital is the flagship academic medical center of UK HealthCare — the referral hospital for central and eastern Kentucky's most complex trauma, transplant, cardiac, and cancer cases.

• An ACS-verified Level I trauma center — one of only two in Kentucky and the only one serving central and eastern Kentucky — feeding what UK calls the area's busiest emergency department.
• A Level IV NICU (the region's only one) and Golisano Children's Hospital at UK, giving neonatal and pediatric RNs the state's highest level of newborn care.
• The UK Markey Cancer Center — Kentucky's only NCI-designated comprehensive cancer center — with a dedicated inpatient cancer floor and a 32-bed blood-and-marrow transplant unit.
• Active solid-organ and bone-marrow transplant programs, the Gill Heart & Vascular Institute, and the Kentucky Neuroscience Institute concentrate transplant, cardiac, and neuro acuity.
• The teaching hospital of the UK College of Medicine, anchoring a health system of 80-plus specialized clinics across the Commonwealth.