Travel Nurse RN - Pediatrics OR - Operating Room - $2,892 per week

AHS Staffing is seeking a travel nurse RN Pediatrics OR - Operating Room for a travel nursing job in Des Moines, Iowa.

Job Description & Requirements

• Specialty: Pediatrics OR - Operating Room
• Discipline: RN
• Start Date: ASAP
• Duration: 13 weeks
• 40 hours per week
• Shift: 10 hours, days
• Employment Type: Travel

Pediatrics OR RN – Travel | 4 openings

• Start: 10/19/2026, with orientations also available 10/26, 11/2, 11/9, 11/16, and 11/23
• Length: 13 weeks
• Schedule: 4×10s, Monday–Friday, 6:30 AM start, rotating weekday off
• Hours: 40/week
• Call: 1 overnight/week + 3 weekends per 13-week contract
• Weekend call: End of shift Friday through 6:30 AM Monday
• Holidays: Required to work 1–2 of the 3 winter holidays unless the unit is closed
• EMR: Epic
• Scrubs: Provided
• Local rule: Must live 50+ miles from facility, based on driver's license

OR / Facility Details

This is a Level I Trauma environment with 16 OR suites, typically running 12–14 at a time. They average approximately 35–50 cases/day, with a turnover expectation under 20 minutes. Staffing is 1:1.

Cases include cardiac/PV, neuro, ortho trauma, robotics, GYN, urology, general, pediatrics, transplants, plus smaller volumes of ENT and plastics. Equipment includes 3 da Vinci robots, Stealth neuro-navigation, and primarily Synthes/Stryker for ortho trauma.

Travelers are required to float across UnityPoint campuses, including Iowa Methodist and Iowa Lutheran.

Must-Haves

24 months of current OR experience is required, with hospital/medical-center experience prioritized. Candidate must have circulating/OR experience, plus experience with General, da Vinci Robotics, Pediatrics, and Trauma.

Also required: Epic within the last 3 years, at least Level II Trauma experience, BLS, active Iowa or compact/multistate RN license at submission, and the candidate cannot be a first-time traveler—they must have completed a travel assignment within the previous 15 months.

Highly preferred: scrub experience, Level I Trauma, orthopedic scrubbing, and experience with neuro, ortho trauma, GYN, urology, transplant, plastics, ENT, and vascular.

One thing I'd screen very carefully on this job is Pediatrics + da Vinci + Trauma experience. Those are specifically listed as required, not preferred.

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