Med Surg Travel Nurse - Hickory, NC

This Med Surg travel nurse position in Hickory, North Carolina, with Advantis Medical is a 13-week Travel Med Surg Registered Nurse (RN) contract at Frye Regional Medical Center. This role pays $1,802 per week and follows a Days shift with a 3x12 schedule.

As the Med Surg registered nurse on this assignment, you'll prioritize care across a varied medical-surgical caseload, administer ordered medications and treatments, educate patients and families, and manage admissions, discharges, and safe care transitions.

Advantis Medical supports travel clinicians with streamlined credentialing to help with fast start dates, free license support and renewals, and Day 1 benefits.

Responsibilities

• Manage a varied caseload of patients with acute and chronic medical-surgical conditions, including postoperative care when assigned
• Perform thorough assessments and monitor for changes in condition, escalating concerns promptly
• Administer medications, IV therapy, and treatments as ordered
• Coordinate admissions, discharges, and transfers with the interdisciplinary care team

Travel Nursing Requirements

• 2+ years of recent Med Surg nursing experience
• Active North Carolina RN License

Frye Regional Medical Center — Hickory, NC

Frye Regional is the Catawba Valley region's full-service community hospital — a 355-bed Duke LifePoint hospital in Hickory built around defined service-line centers, and the first Duke Health heart affiliate in western North Carolina.

• Service-line centers organize the acuity: the Frye Heart Center, Brain Center, Cancer Center, and Lung Center, plus general and vascular surgery, neurology and neurosurgery, and advanced orthopedics.
• A Women's Center with a Level III NICU gives maternity, mother-baby, and neonatal RNs a defined obstetric and newborn track.
• A 32-bed emergency department and a 29-bed inpatient rehabilitation unit span emergency and rehab nursing.
• A Duke Health heart affiliate, connecting the cardiac program to Duke expertise — useful context for cardiac and telemetry nurses.
• An 81-bed adult behavioral-health hospital on the South Campus adds psychiatric nursing, with 300-plus physicians across 35 specialties.