Travel Nurse RN - OR - Operating Room - $2,761 per week

Wellspring Nurse Source is seeking a travel nurse RN OR - Operating Room for a travel nursing job in Hermiston, Oregon.

Job Description & Requirements

• Specialty: OR - Operating Room
• Discipline: RN
• Start Date: 09/21/2026
• Duration: 13 weeks
• 36 hours per week
• Shift: 12 hours, days
• Employment Type: Travel

Registered Nurse (RN) - Perioperative Nursing

The Registered Nurse specializing in perioperative nursing practice is responsible for delivering safe, effective, and quality patient-family centered care during the intraoperative surgical experience. This role includes acting as a patient advocate and directing personnel assigned to the surgical team.

Essential Job Functions:

• Accept responsibility for the direction, control, and planning of patient care activities.
• Make evaluations and decisions based on measurable or verifiable criteria.
• Implement the plan of care by:
  • Protecting the patient from injury caused by extraneous objects and various sources.
  • Performing accounting procedures to prevent unintended retained surgical items.
  • Ensuring procedures are performed on the correct site, side, and level.
  • Managing patient specimens according to organizational policies and procedures.
  • Communicating the patient's status to relevant parties throughout the continuum of care.
  • Administering medications safely and correctly.
  • Maintaining the patients' wound and tissue perfusion at or above baseline levels.
  • Ensuring the stability of the patient's physiological systems and balances.
  • Implementing interventions to protect the patient from surgical site infection.
  • Upholding patient rights, dignity, and privacy.
  • Providing age-specific, culturally competent, and ethical care within legal standards of practice.
  • Delivering consistent and comparable care in various settings.
• Document nursing care accurately, completely, and legibly.
• Collaborate effectively with other disciplines as applicable.
• Utilize problem-solving and conflict resolution skills to foster effective team relationships.
• Maintain required competencies and pursue professional growth through participation in a professional organization.
• Support and uphold the hospital's mission, vision, values, policies, and procedures.
• Participate in required education for applicable DNV programs.
• Perform other related duties as assigned.

Qualifications:

Education:

• Required: Associate of Science in Nursing.
• Preferred: Bachelor's degree in nursing.

Licenses/Certifications:

• Required: Current RN license in the State of Oregon, BLS, ACLS, & PALS Certification, TNCC.
• Preferred: CNOR, Peri-op 101, CRASE training if travel assignment exceeds six months.

Experience:

• Required: None.
• Preferred: Previous RN circulator experience, completion of Peri-op 101 course, and scrub experience.

Skills:

• Ability to perform a variety of duties, adapting to changes without loss of efficiency or composure.
• Recognize and adhere to patient confidentiality rights and responsibilities.
• Convey empathy and compassion in situations involving pain, grief, or trauma.
• Foster a sense of teamwork and cooperation through effective communication.
• Maintain a patient-centered focus while incorporating service excellence in customer relations.

Wellspring Nurse Source Job ID #37987833. Pay package is based on 12 hour shifts and 36.0 hours per week (subject to confirmation) with tax-free stipend amount to be determined. Posted job title: RN OR

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