Operating Room Travel Nurse - Salem, OR

This Operating Room travel nurse position in Salem, Oregon, with Advantis Medical is a 13-week Travel Operating Room Registered Nurse (RN) contract at Salem Hospital. This role pays $2,328 per week and follows a Days shift with a 4x10 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 Oregon RN License

Salem Hospital — Salem, MA

Salem Hospital is the North Shore's largest healthcare provider — a roughly 212-bed Mass General Brigham community hospital with direct clinical ties to Massachusetts General Hospital and Brigham and Women's. It runs a busy emergency department and Level III trauma program, strong stroke and behavioral-health services, and full maternity care.

• An American College of Surgeons–verified Level III Trauma Center with an adult and pediatric emergency department and an on-site helipad.
• A recognized Stroke Center, and the first North Shore hospital to provide advanced care for sexual-assault patients.
• The 120-bed Epstein Center for Behavioral Health — integrated with the ED, with dedicated adult, child, and senior units — adding substantial psychiatric nursing volume.
• Maternity ("the Birthplace") care plus medical-surgical and critical-care units across the campus.
• Mass General Brigham membership (since 1996) and a Tufts University School of Medicine affiliation.