Travel Nurse RN - Cardiovascular Operating Room - $2,767 per week in Des Moines, IA

Registered Nurse (RN) | Cardiovascular Operating Room
Location: Des Moines, IA
Agency: Mindlance Health
Pay: $2,767 per week
Shift Information: Days - 4 days x 10 hours
Contract Duration: 13 Weeks
Start Date: 6/22/2026

About the Position

ID: 77908972 Shift: 6:30 AM-5:00 PM Mon - Fri, 4x10s with rotating day off; holiday rotation; 40 hrs/week, Call - up to Description: Quicklyinterviewing viable candidates: Phone call/text from a 405 area codeLocalRadius rule: 50 miles, 10% reduction to bill rateEmployee Separation past employee of UPH whether FTE, or PRN for the UPH float pool, cannot work travel in another Market no matter which facility they currently work at, or have worked at within the past 12 months. If they worked travel at UPH (not FTE or PRN), the separation policy does not applyHOLIDAY the Unit is closed, your contractor is required to work 1-2 of 3 upcoming Summer holidays (Memorial Day, Independence Day, Labor Day)NBO:16 hrsEMR: EPICOT/ multiplierCall Back: 1.5x multiplier with 2 hr CB minimumOn Call:$9/hrCharge/Precept: $6/hrBillable hrs/week, OT billable after 4048 hrs/week, OT billable after 48UNIT InfoPatient Types: see submission requirementsPatient Ratios: 1:1Bed Size: 16Scrubs: providedAvg. caseload Average 35-50 cases per day. Expectation for turnovers is less than 20 minutes.Special equipment 3 Davinci robots. Use Stealth technology for Neuro navigation and use primarily Synthes or Stryker for ortho trauma. We don t do many ortho joints.How many suites 16 OR s. Run from 12-14 routinely. As a level 1 trauma center, we reserve space for traumas.Service lines -Cardiac/ PV, Neuro, ortho (primarily trauma), robotics, gyn, uro, general, pediatrics, transplants. We do a small volume of ENT and plastic procedures.Scrub or Circulate both would be preferred.Other the call for weekends is from end of shift on Friday until 0630am Monday.CVOR ORIENTATION 2-3 weeks in general OR rooms to get familiar with the department and to get comfortable circulating with proper resources.Approximately 2 weeks circulating and scrubbing in vascular, because our CVOR call includes vascular.Then on to circulating heart cases, starting to take heart shadow call, and moving into scrubbing once comfortable with the circulating flow in our rooms.For the first 6 weeks before RNs areready to take call for cardiac, RNs do general call for the department. We are staffed 24 hours per day, and our charge nurses would not put RNs into cases that we would not expect any circulator to be able to do or RNs would be a second set of hands in a large case needing extra help.Traveler will be required to float across all campuses; Iowa Methodist MC, Iowa Lutheran Iowa Methodist Submission requirements: Quicklyinterviewing viable candidates: Phone call/text from a 405 area codeOrientation Dates: 6/15, 6/22HOLIDAY the Unit is closed, your contractor is required to work 1-2 of 3 upcoming Summer holidays (Memorial Day, Independence Day, Labor Day)minimum of 24 months current/recent operating room experinece Cardiovascular OR / CVOR experience [required]circulating / operating roomexperience [required] ---(80% of experience in Cardiac cases / 20% experience in General cases)strong proficient experience in: Cardiac, vascular, thoracic [REQUIRED] ---basic General Surgery circulating experience[REQUIRED] --- (if not assigned to Cardiac cases)EPIC electronic medical systems experience within previous 3 years [required]Trauma Level I experience [highly preferred]trauma level II experience [required]No 1st time travelers, must have completed a travel assignment within previous 12 mos.Scrub experience needed including open heart scrubbing [REQUIRED]PROFILE history/resume/employment history must have 24 months of current operating room / CVOR experience[required]Skills Checklist must be specific to the discipline listed on the job (Operating Room Nurse, scrub/scrubbing) [required]Nursy s must state Active Iowa/IA license or compact/Multistate at time of submission [required] [document]Professional Reference/Reference Check - charge/supervisor/nurse manager/director/CNO/COO performance evaluation/reference from within 24 months of today's date[preferred]Driver s License[document] [required]AHA/Active American Heart Association or ARC/AMERICAN RED CROSSBLS [required] OnCall:up to 1 overnight/week and 4 weekends per 13 week contract schedule; Fri 5p through Mon 6:30a (AHA) Guaranteed Hours: Contract Weeks:91

Requirements

Required for Onboarding

• ACLS
• BLS
• CVOR Exam
• CVOR RN Skills Checklist
• Core Exam - Nursing
• Ishihara Colorvision Screening