Travel Registered Nurse - Operating Room - Clovis, NM

Travel assignment, 13 weeks, 8hr days, 40 hours a week, starting November 9, 2026.

Pay as Cross Country posts it: about $2,677 a week in all, a taxable rate of $35.26 an hour plus $1,267 a week in housing and meal stipends.

Job Summary

Operating Room Nurse – Location: unspecified. This position provides direct patient care in a hospital setting, utilizing the nursing process to ensure safe, effective, patient-centered, timely, efficient, and equitable care. The role involves collaborating with healthcare teams and patients, administering medications and treatments, and supervising clinical staff.

Job Details

• Floating between departments and or local locations within 20 miles is required.
• Utilize the nursing process to provide direct patient care to an assigned group of patients during a shift.
• Ensure safe, effective, patient-centered, timely, efficient, and equitable care of patients.
• Provide direct patient care by assessing, planning, implementing, evaluating, and documenting individual patient needs, actions taken, and patient responses.
• Coordinate patient care through collaboration with the patient/family and healthcare team.
• Initiate, utilize, and document appropriate protocols and standards of care.
• Administer medication and treatments as prescribed by physician or standard protocols and document according to policy.
• Identify and meet patient and family learning and discharge needs on admission and throughout the episode of care.
• Assume responsibility for the clinical supervision of LPNs and non-licensed assistive personnel.
• Complete patient population/age-specific/procedure and protocol education and competency testing per unit standards.
• Schedule: Monday through Friday, 6:30 AM start, 8-hour shift, minimum 40 hours per week.
• Required Skills & Experience: EPIC, detail-oriented, BLS (CPR).
• Education: Associates Degree in Nursing (ADN) or Associate of Science in Nursing (ASN) required.
• Certifications & Licensure: State of New Mexico or Compact State Nursing License, BLS, and certification through American Heart Association, American Health and Safety, or American Red Cross.
• Required Certifications & Licensure: PALS and ACLS preferred.

Benefits

The benefits of taking a travel assignment with Cross Country include:

• Private housing or generous housing allowance
• Comprehensive health insurance with prescription coverage
• Dependent health insurance with prescription coverage
• Competitive salaries
• Referral bonuses
• Travel reimbursement
• 401(k) retirement plan
• Direct deposit/free checking
• Unlimited free CE credits