Travel RN - Operating Room
Lone Tree, Colorado
Staffing partner
Posted Aug 20 · Not open to new grads
- Shift
- 12-hour nights
- Hours a week
- 36
- Unit
- OR
- Contract
- 13 weeks
What the listing says
Role
- Schedule
- 12-hour nights · 3 a week · 36 hours
- Nurse to patient
- 1:1–1:2
- Term
- 13 weeks · starts Sep 21, 2026 · Travel
- On the floor
- Charge shifts · On call
- Practice
- MEDITECH charting
- Setting
- Hospital
stated in this posting
More role details
- Accepts
- RN
- Experience
- 1+ years
- Staffing partner
- American Traveler
Pay
About this role
Assignment Overview
- Shift: Nights, 3x12hrs
- Hours: 36 hrs/wk
- Start Date: Sep 21, 2026
Read the full posting
- Length: 13 weeks
- Openings: 1
American Traveler is hiring an experienced OR RN for a seasonal travel assignment requiring active CO or compact RN license and at least 1 year of recent acute care OR experience.
Details
- Work in the Main OR department of a hospital setting with 284 beds and 55 staff
- Schedule is Wednesday, Thursday, and Friday on a 7P-7A night shift
- Patient ratios are estimated at 1:1 to 1:2, though never guaranteed
- Unit performs vascular/hybrid, trauma, and neuro surgical procedures
- Uses DaVinci Robotics equipment
- Charting is done in Meditech / CPN EMR
- On-call required from 5P-11P Monday through Friday with a 30-minute response time, no overnight on-call required
- 13-week assignment
Requirements
- Active CO or compact RN license required
- Minimum 1 year of current acute care OR RN experience required
- BLS and ACLS certifications required
- No certifications may expire within the first 30 days of start
- Experience at large Trauma OR facilities preferred
- Robotics experience highly preferred and given priority
- Prior Meditech experience preferred
- No employment gaps of 90 days or more within the past 12 months
- US Social Security Number and date of birth required for consideration (no Canadian SSN accepted)
- One professional reference required
Additional Information
- Provide surgical nursing care in a high-acuity Main OR handling vascular/hybrid, trauma, and neuro cases
- Team includes a Charge RN, Trauma RN, and Trauma Tech on day shift, and an RN, Tech, plus on-call RN and Tech coverage on night shift
- Best suited for self-motivated, positive team players
- Must live outside a 50-mile radius of the facility, as local candidates are not accepted
- First-time travelers are not addressed for this specific role but standard experience requirements apply
Sourced from a public job board.
“Traveler is hiring an experienced OR RN for a seasonal travel assignment requiring active CO or compact RN license and at least 1 year of recent acute care OR experience.” · from this posting
Requirements
- Active CO or compact RN license required
- Minimum 1 year of current acute care OR RN experience required
- BLS and ACLS certifications required
- No certifications may expire within the first 30 days of start
- Experience at large Trauma OR facilities preferred
- Robotics experience highly preferred and given priority
- Prior Meditech experience preferred
- No employment gaps of 90 days or more within the past 12 months
- US Social Security Number and date of birth required for consideration (no Canadian SSN accepted)
- One professional reference required
Place
- City
- Lone Tree, Colorado
- Median rent
- $2,139/mo
- Local household income
- $123,741/yr
- State price level
- 3% above the national average
rent and tenant-paid utilities
all local households, not nurse pay
Colorado index 103.1, where 100 is the national average.
Cost figures from U.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis.
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American Traveler is a travel nursing staffing agency that places experienced registered nurses in temporary 13-week contract assignments at hospitals across multiple states. Assignments are located in diverse geographic settings, from Rapid City, SD, to Michigan's Upper Peninsula and Atlanta,…
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