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Travel RN - Operating Room

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American Traveler

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

stated in this posting

Term
13 weeks · starts Sep 21, 2026 · Travel
On the floor
Charge shifts · On call
Practice
MEDITECH charting
Setting
Hospital
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
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  • 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

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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

rent and tenant-paid utilities

Local household income
$123,741/yr

all local households, not nurse pay

State price level
3% above the national average

Colorado index 103.1, where 100 is the national average.

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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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