Operating Room Travel Nurse - Fort Myers, FL

This Operating Room travel nurse position in Fort Myers, Florida, with Advantis Medical is a 13-week Travel Operating Room Registered Nurse (RN) contract at Gulf Coast Medical Center. This role pays $2,391 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 Florida RN License

Gulf Coast Medical Center — Fort Myers, FL

Gulf Coast Medical Center is the largest and most complex hospital in Lee County — a roughly 624-bed Lee Health facility in Fort Myers, expanded substantially since 2017, that serves as Southwest Florida's regional safety net for trauma, stroke, and cancer.

• A state-approved Level II Trauma Center — the only trauma center between Sarasota and Miami — and Lee County's only trauma, oncology, and Comprehensive Stroke Center.
• An accredited Comprehensive Stroke Center offering minimally invasive (thrombectomy) catheter procedures, anchored by the Neuroscience Institute and a dedicated neuroscience ICU.
• A Regional Cancer Center with a dedicated inpatient oncology floor added in the 2021 expansion.
• Cardiology including open-heart surgery, a coronary care unit, and a chest-pain Cardiac Decision Unit.
• Vascular, general, orthopedic, neurosurgical, and cardiac surgery across 22 operating rooms.