Travel OR RN

Job Description\n Care Career is seeking a travel nurse RN OR - Operating Room for a travel nursing job in Des Moines, Iowa.Job Description & Requirements\n \n Specialty: OR - Operating Room\n Discipline: RN\n Start Date: 10/25/2026\n Duration: 13 weeks\n 40 hours per week\n Shift: 8 hours, rotating\n Employment Type: Travel\n \n JD Summary – Trio / Care Career | ID 62531726\n Position: Operating Room RNFacility: Iowa Methodist Medical Center / Iowa LutheranShift Options:\n \n 5×8s: Mon–Fri, 12:30 PM–9:00 PM\n 4×10s: Mon, Tue, Thu, Fri, 10:30 AM–9:00 PM\n 40 hrs/week\n Contract: 13 weeks\n Weekend Call: One overnight/week + 3 weekends per 13-week contract\n Weekend call: Friday after shift through Monday 6:30 AM\n OT: 1.15× holiday; OT billable after 40 hrs (36–40 standard)\n Must-Haves\n \n 24 months current OR experience\n Circulating OR experience required\n Scrub experience highly preferred\n Experience with:\n \n General\n Da Vinci Robotics\n Pediatrics\n Trauma\n \n EPIC experience within the last 3 years\n Trauma Level II experience required\n Level I Trauma experience preferred\n Not a first-time traveler — must have completed a travel assignment within the last 15 months\n Iowa RN license or Compact/Multistate license\n BLS – AHA/ARC\n Must be willing to float across all campuses\n Preferred Experience\n \n Neuro\n Orthopedics, primarily trauma\n Gynecology\n Urology\n Transplants\n Plastics\n ENT\n Vascular\n Orthopedic scrubbing\n Unit Details\n \n 16 OR suites, typically 12–14 running\n Level I Trauma Center\n Patient ratio: 1:1\n Approx. 35–50 cases/day\n Turnover expectation: \n 3 Da Vinci robots\n Stealth neuro-navigation\n Primarily Synthes/Stryker for ortho trauma\n Scrub or circulate, with both preferred\n Service lines include cardiac/PV, neuro, ortho trauma, robotics, gyn, uro, general, pediatrics and transplants.\n Submission Requirements\n Resume showing 24 months current OR experience\n OR-specific skills checklist\n Active IA/Compact license on Nursys\n Driver's license\n BLS\n Professional reference/evaluation from the last 24 months preferred\n No locals: candidate must live 50+ miles from facility based on driver's license\n Former UPH FTE/PRN employees have additional separation restrictions.\n Quickly interviewing; recruiter will contact candidates by phone/text from a 405 area code.\n Biggest screening points: 24 months recent OR + circulating + General/Da Vinci/Peds/Trauma + recent Epic + Level II trauma + recent travel assignment + IA/Compact license + BLS.\n \n About Care Career\n \n Care Career brings together a portfolio of leading healthcare staffing organizations, each delivering specialized talent solutions across the industry. Wherever you want to go, We Make It Happen.\n With travel nursing jobs across the country, you can discover the possibilities that create the lifestyle and financial position that you have dreamed of.\n Care Career is a modern, transparent staffing firm creating the ultimate community of US.\n \n Benefits\n \n Referral bonus\n Weekly pay\n Medical benefits\n Continuing Education\n Dental benefits\n Vision benefits\n \n