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 posting and they are not. The workload, the acuity and the equipment change completely between them, and the single most common reason a clinician leaves an assignment early is that the unit turned out to be a different job from the one described.
| 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 |
Ask for the actual ratio rather than the posted one, the equipment in use, the shift pattern including how call and weekends rotate, and why the role is open. That last question tells you more than the rest combined — a post open because of growth is a very different assignment from one open because three people left in a quarter.
We ask facilities all of that at intake and pass the honest answer on, including when it is unflattering.
We tell you the rate, the unit and the shift pattern before you commit, and we ask permission before every single submittal — you will never find out you were put forward somewhere after the fact. One recruiter handles you from the first call through to your last shift.
Placement is always free to you. Our fee is paid by the facility. Join the network and we will only call you when something genuinely fits.
Two minutes now saves a dozen irrelevant calls later. We only get in touch when something genuinely matches your specialty, your states and the schedule you actually want.
Tell us your unit and shift preference and we will match you properly.