Operating Room Travel Nurse - Decatur, GA

This Operating Room travel nurse position in Decatur, Georgia, with Advantis Medical is a 13-week Travel Operating Room Registered Nurse (RN) contract at Emory - Decatur Hospital. This role pays $2,419 per week and follows a Nights shift with a 5x8 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 Georgia RN License

Emory Decatur Hospital — Decatur, GA

Emory Decatur Hospital is a 451-bed acute hospital — one of 10 Emory Healthcare hospitals and part of Georgia's only academic health system — serving Decatur and metro Atlanta since 1961.

• A high-volume emergency department (roughly 65,000 visits a year) staffed for cardiac, stroke, surgical, orthopedic, gynecologic, and pediatric emergencies.
• Magnet-recognized for nursing excellence — Emory Decatur/Emory Long-Term Acute Care earned its first ANCC Magnet designation in 2025 (Emory Healthcare's sixth Magnet facility).
• A Heart & Vascular program recognized by the AHA's Mission: Lifeline (STEMI) and the ACC's Cath/PCI Registry, with a coronary care unit.
• Cancer care through the Winship Cancer Institute of Emory — Georgia's only NCI-designated comprehensive cancer center — plus a comprehensive breast center.
• Maternity and neonatal care, bariatric surgery, behavioral health, and AASM-accredited sleep medicine.