Operating Room Travel Nurse - Rochester, NY

This Operating Room travel nurse position in Rochester, New York, with Advantis Medical is a 13-week Travel Operating Room Registered Nurse (RN) contract at Strong Memorial Hospital. This role pays $2,264 per week and follows a Rotating 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 New York RN License

Strong Memorial Hospital — Rochester, NY

Strong Memorial is the 886-bed flagship academic hospital of the University of Rochester Medical Center, carrying the region's top designations in one place: Level I trauma, regional burn, and transplant.

• A New York–designated Level I adult trauma and regional burn center, putting trauma, burn, and critical-care nurses at the top of the region's acuity.
• Heart and liver transplant programs, plus neuromedicine programs in Parkinson's, epilepsy, and neuromuscular disease.
• The attached Golisano Children's Hospital brings its own pediatric depth — an ACS-verified Level I pediatric trauma center, a regional PICU, and a Level IV NICU — distinct tracks for pediatric and neonatal RNs.
• Magnet-recognized and the primary teaching hospital of the University of Rochester School of Medicine and Dentistry.
• The NCI-designated Wilmot Cancer Institute carries oncology nursing across the campus.