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Job Description & Requirements
Perioperative Nurse - Operating Room Nurse - (OR RN)
StartDate: ASAP Available Shifts: 8 D, 8 E, 8 N Pay Rate: $39.00 *


As a top provider of care to the community, this Operating Room (OR) unit prides itself on optimal patient outcomes with compassionate care. The right candidate for this role will have the opportunity to work in a professionally challenging, positive, and innovative work environment.

The role of the perioperative nurse / operating room nurse (OR RN) is to provide care for patients before, during, and after surgery or surgical procedures. The OR nurse / OR RN also serves as patient educator, circulating nurse and/or scrub nurse, and potentially RN first assistant or operating room director with additional training. Circulating OR nurses work within the operating suite but outside of the sterile field; scrub OR nurses handle and prepare operating instruments and equipment within the sterile field. Perioperative nurses work in every type of healthcare facility, including hospitals, ambulatory or outpatient surgery centers, and physician offices.

Required Qualifications
1. 2 years scrub and circ for ortho/neuro/spine
2. ACLS
3. CA lic.

Preferred Qualifications
previous travel

About the Facility
Boasting a staff of more than 400 physicians and operating across two campuses, this hospital offers high quality care to residents of the Greater Santa Cruz area. The Joint Commission accredited facility first opened its doors to the public in 1941 as an 18 bed facility and has steadily grown since then, blossoming into one of the most trusted names in medical care in the region. As a member of the Catholic Healthcare West group, the facility is equipped with state-of-the-art medical technology and strives to uphold the high quality of care that patients associate with its parent institution.

Facility Location
In Spanish the word Santa Cruz means “Holy Cross”. This city just south of San Francisco is located off the northern part of Monterey Bay. Santa Cruz is now well known for its temperate climate, the beauty of its natural coastline and forests and its unconventional community lifestyle. It’s actually a beach resort with an oceanfront amusement park. There’s even a “Clock Tower” in the center of the city.

Job Benefits
NurseChoice offers one of the best pay packages in the travel nursing industry, as well as:
  • Competitive pay rates
  • Free, quality, private housing
  • Medical, Dental, Vision
  • 401(k) and Flex Spending
  • Life Insurance
  • Guaranteed Hours and Overtime Potential
  • Travel Reimbursement and Allowances
  • Accident and Short-term Disability Coverage
  • Free Continuing Education
  • Refer a friend and earn extra cash!


About the Company
NurseChoice isn't your ordinary travel nurse recruitment agency. An AMN Healthcare company, NurseChoice is the national leader in connecting registered nurses with quick-start, short-term travel assignments (typically four to eight weeks in duration), including EMR and critical staffing assignments, while also offering some of the travel nursing industry's best benefits and highest pay rates. AMN Healthcare is an EEO/AA/Disability/Protected Veteran Employer.  We encourage minority and female applicants to apply.


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