RN-Med Surg at Dothan, AL 36305 (Day & night shifts available)

Avani Healthcare

Dothan, Alabama

Posted Aug 7

Shift and hours: 12-⁠hour nights3 shifts · 36 hours a week
Unit and setting: Med-Surg · Hospital
License: RN licenseAL or Compact state license required
Term: 13 weeks · Travel

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License: AL or Compact state license required Check your license
Certification: BLS & ACLS from American heart association and NIHSS required
Certification: We are a Joint Commission Certified agency who knows you are more than a healthcare worker....
Experience: Must have one year of experience in RN- Med Surg
Experience: CERNER experience required
Experience: You work hard, and you deserve an exceptional travel healthcare experience.
Experience: With years of experience in healthcare staffing, we're ready to find the perfect assignment and destination for you.
Also asks: 50 Miles radius rule
Also asks: If you are interested, please reach out at sandeep.c@avanihealthstaff.com or call or text at 585-371-6129
Also asks: Welcome to Avani Healthcare Staffing...where YOU matter!
Also asks: Avani Healthcare Staffing makes it happen!
Also asks: YOU are person.
Also asks: That's what makes us different from other healthcare stafing companies; we focus on you.
Also asks: We make it our mission to keep the process simple and to put the right people in the right places at the right time.

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What it pays

Against similar roles: In range for Alabama travel rolesAlabama travel postings that state pay run $1,080/week to $2,360/week, the middle half $1,200/week to $1,980/week, across 60 postings.
Also stated: $17/hr
Overtime pay: $60/hr
Travel package: $770/wk housing · $476/wk meals

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*Travel RN-Med Surg ($1,874.00/36 hours/13-week assignment/12 hours shift/Day & Night shifts available)

*Dothan, AL

*Hourly rate - $52.05 [$17.44 taxable | $34.61 non-taxable]

*OT - $60.05

*Weekly Gross - $1,874.00 [$628.00 taxable $1,246.00stipend]

*Lodging - $770.00

*M&IE - $476.00

*36 hours in a week/ 3 Shifts/ 12 hours in a day /Day & Night shift available

Requirements

AL or Compact state license required
BLS & ACLS from American heart association and NIHSS required
Must have one year of experience in RN- Med Surg
CERNER experience required
50 Miles radius rule

Welcome to Avani Healthcare Staffing...where YOU matter! You work hard, and you deserve an exceptional travel healthcare experience. Avani Healthcare Staffing makes it happen! We are a Joint Commission Certified agency who knows you are more than a healthcare worker.... YOU are person. That's what makes us different from other healthcare stafing companies; we focus on you. We make it our mission to keep the process simple and to put the right people in the right places at the right time. With years of experience in healthcare staffing, we're ready to find the perfect assignment and destination for you.

What's around it?

In Dothan, AL

Dothan, ALFrom Census ACS 2024.

Living costs about 16% below the US average

Median rent: $960/mo
Household income: $55,792/yr, all local households, not nurse pay

Life in Dothan, AL

NeighborhoodsWest Dothan and the outskirts are the pockets locals actually recommend: Headland, Rehobeth, Magnolia Trace, and Grove Park come up first on community threads. Buyers with more budget name Mountainbrook; a six-figure remote worker called The Woodlands peaceful, safer than Enterprise, and minutes from Target, Starbucks, and the airport. Downtown mixes restored historic homes on St. Andrews with newer lofts and apartments on Foster and Main, walkable to breweries and coffee. The city is described as tree rings—Downtown, Central Dothan inside the Circle, then North/South/East/West, then cotton-and-pine countryside—with more than 50 neighborhoods in Dothan proper plus small towns such as Taylor (Niche’s #1 in Houston County).

West Dothan and the outskirts are the pockets locals actually recommend: Headland, Rehobeth, Magnolia Trace, and Grove Park come up first on community threads. Buyers with more budget name Mountainbrook; a six-figure remote worker called The Woodlands peaceful, safer than Enterprise, and minutes from Target, Starbucks, and the airport.

Downtown mixes restored historic homes on St. Andrews with newer lofts and apartments on Foster and Main, walkable to breweries and coffee. The city is described as tree rings—Downtown, Central Dothan inside the Circle, then North/South/East/West, then cotton-and-pine countryside—with more than 50 neighborhoods in Dothan proper plus small towns such as Taylor (Niche’s #1 in Houston County).

Sources

As of Sep 11, 2026Source 1: facebook.com Source 2: dothanrealestatebigcreek.com Source 3: reddit.com Source 4: niche.com

Getting aroundThe typical Dothan commute is about 16.22 minutes; the city is very spread out, daily life is car-based, and these sources name no transit lines, hospital routes, or parking rules. The Woodlands is minutes from Target, Starbucks, and Dothan Regional Airport, which has daily nonstop jets to Atlanta. Major highways stitch the Wiregrass together; the beach, Lake Eufaula, and Atlanta are each a few hours’ drive. Traffic still shows up as a local complaint even with that short average drive.

The typical Dothan commute is about 16.22 minutes; the city is very spread out, daily life is car-based, and these sources name no transit lines, hospital routes, or parking rules. The Woodlands is minutes from Target, Starbucks, and Dothan Regional Airport, which has daily nonstop jets to Atlanta.

Major highways stitch the Wiregrass together; the beach, Lake Eufaula, and Atlanta are each a few hours’ drive. Traffic still shows up as a local complaint even with that short average drive.

Sources

As of Sep 11, 2026Source 1: realestate.usnews.com Source 2: dothanrealestatebigcreek.com Source 3: reddit.com Source 4: visitdothan.com

OutdoorsDothan Area Botanical Gardens (paths, themed plantings, water features) and Landmark Park (trails, historic buildings, family exhibits) are the in-town nature anchors; Forever Wild Trails at Beaver Creek adds hiking. City parks include Eastgate Park, Kiwanis Park, Westgate Park, and Rip Hewes Athletic Complex, with golf courses around the metro and Adventureland for mini golf and batting cages. Outer rings mix rivers, creeks, timber, cotton farms, and wildlife; a few hours away are Lake Eufaula, Florida beaches, St. Andrew’s State Park, and caverns in Marianna. Hiking inside Dothan itself is often called limited.

Dothan Area Botanical Gardens (paths, themed plantings, water features) and Landmark Park (trails, historic buildings, family exhibits) are the in-town nature anchors; Forever Wild Trails at Beaver Creek adds hiking. City parks include Eastgate Park, Kiwanis Park, Westgate Park, and Rip Hewes Athletic Complex, with golf courses around the metro and Adventureland for mini golf and batting cages.

Outer rings mix rivers, creeks, timber, cotton farms, and wildlife; a few hours away are Lake Eufaula, Florida beaches, St. Andrew’s State Park, and caverns in Marianna. Hiking inside Dothan itself is often called limited.

Sources

As of Sep 11, 2026Source 1: timbercreekdistillery.com Source 2: facebook.com Source 3: visitdothan.com Source 4: southernliving.com Source 5: reddit.com

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Living in Dothan

Dothan is the Peanut Capital of the World—about 60 percent of the U.S. crop grows within 100 miles—and the unflashy hub of Alabama’s Wiregrass, a tri-state area of nearly 300,000 people near Fort Rucker, Georgia, and the Florida line. It will not sell you mountains or beachfront. What it does sell is a roughly 16-minute typical commute, median homes near $194,000, rents around $750, and downtown Foster Street, where murals, the Wiregrass Museum of Art, KBC, and Dothan Ice Cream Company sit among historic lofts. Nurses here tend toward the west side, The Woodlands (minutes from Target, Starbucks, and the airport), Magnolia Trace, Grove Park, or towns like Rehobeth, Headland, and Taylor. Landmark Park, the botanical gardens, and the National Peanut Festival fill weekends; Lake Eufaula, Florida beaches, and Atlanta are a few hours away. Tradeoffs are honest: brutal summers, high utilities, thin nightlife, limited hiking, and some transplants get bored. Bring a car and you get affordability plus a slower, family-oriented pace.

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Sources

As of 2026Source 1: youtube.com Source 2: realestate.usnews.com Source 3: dothanrealestatebigcreek.com Source 4: reddit.com Source 5: facebook.com Source 6: niche.com Source 7: visitdothan.com Source 8: timbercreekdistillery.com Source 9: facebook.com

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