Des Moines, Iowa
Travel
Posted on December 11, 2025
OR
504133
OR RN – Travel Contract | Des Moines, IA
Nurse’s Etc. Staffing, a proud veteran and minority-owned healthcare staffing agency, is seeking experienced OR registered Nurses for an exciting travel contract opportunity.
Assignment Details:
Location: Des Moines, Iowa
Duration: 13 weeks
Start Date: 1/5/2026
Weekly Hours: 40
Shift Details: Monday - Friday: Days, with rotating day off
Float Requirements: Will be required to float across all campuses; Iowa Methodist MC, Iowa Lutheran & Iowa Methodist
Weekend Requirements: Call schedule; Fri 5p through Mon 6:30a
On Call: Up to 1 overnight/week and 3 weekends per 13-week contract
Pay: $2,767 ($1,360 taxable + $1,407 stipend)
Unit information:
Requirements:
Nurse’s Etc. Staffing, a proud veteran and minority-owned healthcare staffing agency, is seeking experienced OR registered Nurses for an exciting travel contract opportunity.
Assignment Details:
Location: Des Moines, Iowa
Duration: 13 weeks
Start Date: 1/5/2026
Weekly Hours: 40
Shift Details: Monday - Friday: Days, with rotating day off
Float Requirements: Will be required to float across all campuses; Iowa Methodist MC, Iowa Lutheran & Iowa Methodist
Weekend Requirements: Call schedule; Fri 5p through Mon 6:30a
On Call: Up to 1 overnight/week and 3 weekends per 13-week contract
Pay: $2,767 ($1,360 taxable + $1,407 stipend)
Unit information:
- Patient Ratios: 1:1
- Bed Size: 16
- Scrubs: provided
- Avg. caseload - Average 35-50 cases per day. Expectation for turnovers is less than 20 minutes.
- Special equipment - 3 Davinci robots. Use Stealth technology for Neuro navigation and use primarily Synthes or Stryker for ortho trauma. We dont do many ortho joints.
- How many suites - 16 ORs. Run from 12-14 routinely. As a level 1 trauma center, we reserve space for traumas.
- Service lines - Cardiac/ PV, Neuro, ortho (primarily trauma), robotics, gyn, uro, general, pediatrics, transplants. We do a small volume of ENT and plastic procedures.
- Scrub or Circulate - both would be preferred.
- Other - the call for weekends is from end of shift on Friday until 0630am Monday.
Requirements:
- 2+ years of current OR experience
- Proficient circulating experience required, scrub experience desired, but not required
- At a minimum - must be proficiently experienced in the following cases: Gen, Robotics, Pediatrics and Trauma (additional experience in following service lines -- (Neuro, ortho (primarily trauma), gyn, uro, transplants, plastics, ENT, Vascular)
- Active state license
- EPIC EMR
- Level I experience
- Travel Nursing experience
- Certifications: BLS, ACLS, PALS, TNCC
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