Operating Room Travel Nurse - St. Louis, MO

This Operating Room travel nurse position in St. Louis, Missouri, with Advantis Medical is a 13-week Travel Operating Room Registered Nurse (RN) contract at Barnes - Jewish Hospital. This role pays $2,453 per week and follows a Days 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. Louis, MO, and find others just like it.

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 Missouri RN License

Barnes Jewish Hospital — St. Louis, MO

Barnes-Jewish Hospital is the largest hospital in Missouri and the adult teaching hospital for Washington University School of Medicine — a high-acuity academic setting in the heart of St. Louis's Central West End.

• More than 1,250 beds on the Washington University Medical Center campus, among the largest hospitals in a multi-state region, with the breadth of specialty units that scale brings.
• An American College of Surgeons–verified Level I trauma center, with an emergency department running about 80,000 visits a year.
• Magnet-recognized for nursing — the first adult hospital in Missouri to earn ANCC Magnet status — so nurses step into an established professional-practice culture.
• Specialty tracks RNs can build on: the Heart & Vascular Center, the Washington University and Barnes-Jewish Transplant Center, and Siteman Cancer Center, the only NCI-designated Comprehensive Cancer Center in Missouri and within 240 miles of St. Louis.
• ICU, step-down, and med/surg work runs alongside a teaching program of more than 850 residents and fellows, so the clinical pace and the learning curve are both steep.
• The Parkview Tower (opened 2018) houses the Women & Infants Center, and a rooftop helipad feeds the trauma and transplant services.