Operating room, recovery and procedural nursing.
Intraoperative patients across surgical services, in circulating and scrub roles.
Patients emerging from anesthesia — airway management, pain control, hemodynamic stabilization.
Surgical patients from admission through transfer to theatre — assessment, IV access, consent verification.
Patients undergoing GI and bronchoscopic procedures, with moderate sedation.
Patients undergoing diagnostic and interventional cardiac procedures, including STEMI activation.
Instrument decontamination, assembly, sterilization and distribution supporting all procedural areas.
They look interchangeable on a job description and are not. The single most common cause of a failed placement in this group is a req that names the unit but not the acuity, the ratio or the equipment — so a candidate arrives qualified on paper and unable to hold the assignment.
| Unit | Typical ratio |
|---|---|
| Operating Room | Case-based rather than ratio-based |
| PACU | Typically 1:2, 1:1 for phase one unstable |
| Pre-Op | Typically 1:3 to 1:4 |
| Endoscopy | Case-based |
| Cath Lab | Case-based |
| Sterile Processing | Volume-based |
We ask for patient population, acuity, ratio, equipment and shift pattern at intake, plus the exact credential the unit requires rather than the job title. If you are not sure what to specify, describe the patients and we will work backwards to the credential.
Registered nursing is covered by the Nurse Licensure Compact in most of the country, so a multistate license lets a nurse work across member states without a new application. Thirteen jurisdictions sit outside it — Alaska, California, DC, Hawaii, Illinois, Michigan, Minnesota, Nevada, New York, Oregon, Puerto Rico, American Samoa and the Northern Mariana Islands — and in those markets every out-of-state nurse needs a single-state license first. Those are the markets where reqs stay open longest.
Every candidate is spoken to before submittal, with licensure, certifications and unit-specific competency confirmed up front. Rates sit inside the ranges on our published cost breakdown.
Tell us the unit, the ratio and the start date.