Operating Room Travel Nurse

This Operating Room travel nurse position in Portland, Maine, with Advantis Medical is a 9-week Travel Operating Room Registered Nurse (RN) contract at Maine Medical Center. This role pays $2,688 per week and follows a Days shift with a 3x12 schedule.

As the Operating Room registered nurse on this assignment, you'll circulate surgical cases, verify patients, sites, and counts, participate in surgical time-outs, and safeguard sterile technique from setup through handoff to recovery.

Advantis Medical supports travel clinicians with streamlined credentialing to help with fast start dates, free license support and renewals, and Day 1 benefits.

Responsibilities

• Circulate for surgical procedures and, when trained and assigned, perform the scrub role across assigned service lines
• Advocate for patient safety under anesthesia, verifying required consent and site documentation and participating in surgical time-outs
• Monitor and protect the sterile field, performing and reconciling instrument, sponge, and sharps counts with the perioperative team
• Anticipate surgeon and team needs, managing supplies, equipment, positioning, and specimen handling per facility protocol

Travel Nursing Requirements:

• 2+ years of recent Operating Room nursing experience
• Active Maine RN License

Maine Medical Center - Portland, ME

Maine Medical Center is the largest hospital in northern New England and the flagship academic medical center of MaineHealth - a roughly 700-bed Portland campus (MaineHealth's combined hospital license totals 929 beds) that serves as the region's tertiary referral hub for trauma, cardiovascular, transplant, children's, and maternal care.

• A verified Level I Trauma Center - one of only three in northern New England - with the state's only pediatric emergency department.
• Magnet Recognition for Nursing Excellence (ANCC), earned four consecutive times at the Portland campus.
• The Barbara Bush Children's Hospital, home to Maine's only Level IV NICU, plus a Comprehensive Stroke Center and a family birth center.
• An academic medical center affiliated with Tufts University School of Medicine, training more than 300 residents and fellows.
• A cardiovascular program and the Maine Transplant Program (kidney), with roughly 28,000 inpatient admissions a year.