Job Description
Prime Staffing is seeking a travel nurse RN OR - Operating Room for a travel nursing job in Templeton, California.
Job Description & Requirements
- Specialty: OR - Operating Room
- Discipline: RN
- Start Date: 08/24/2026
- Duration: 8 weeks
- 40 hours per week
- Shift: 8 hours, days, nights
- Employment Type: Travel
RN – OR Circulator
Location: Templeton, CA
Facility: Adventist Health Twin Cities
Contract Type: Short-Term Travel Contract
Shift: Day Shift | 5x8 Hour Shifts | 40 Hours/Week
Contract Duration: 8 Weeks (Epic Conversion Support)
Job Description
Currently seeking an experienced Registered Nurse – Operating Room Circulator to support perioperative services during an 8-week Epic conversion project. The RN Circulator will provide safe, efficient, and patient-centered nursing care throughout the surgical experience while collaborating with surgeons, anesthesia providers, surgical technologists, and the multidisciplinary perioperative team.
The ideal candidate will have strong operating room experience, excellent communication skills, and the ability to adapt quickly in a fast-paced surgical environment while supporting workflow optimization during the Epic transition.
Responsibilities
- Serve as the circulating RN during surgical procedures, ensuring patient safety throughout the perioperative process.
- Perform preoperative patient assessments, verify patient identity, surgical consent, procedure, allergies, and surgical site according to safety protocols.
- Prepare operating rooms with required equipment, supplies, instruments, implants, and medications based on scheduled procedures.
- Assist with patient positioning, skin preparation, surgical time-out, and prevention of patient injury during procedures.
- Coordinate communication between surgeons, anesthesia providers, scrub technicians, and other members of the surgical team.
- Maintain accurate intraoperative documentation, including surgical counts, implants, specimens, medications, and procedure details.
- Act as a patient advocate by promoting safety, privacy, comfort, and dignity throughout the surgical experience.
- Monitor sterile technique and anticipate the needs of the surgical team during procedures.
- Assist with specimen collection, labeling, and transport according to hospital policies.
- Support infection prevention practices and adherence to regulatory standards.
- Collaborate with the perioperative team during urgent and emergent surgical cases when required.
- Provide accurate documentation and support workflow changes related to Epic EMR conversion.
Required Qualifications
- Active California RN License
- Minimum 2 years of recent Operating Room RN Circulator experience
- Strong knowledge of perioperative nursing standards and surgical workflows
- Experience with surgical documentation and EMR systems
- Ability to work independently in a fast-paced operating room environment
- Strong teamwork, communication, and critical-thinking skills
Preferred Experience
- Travel RN experience
- Experience supporting EMR/Epic implementation or conversion projects
- Experience with general surgery, orthopedic, gynecologic, vascular, and outpatient surgical procedures
- Community hospital or multi-specialty OR experience
Schedule Details
- Shift: Days
- Hours: 5x8-hour shifts
- Guaranteed Hours: 40 hours/week
- Contract Length: 8 weeks
- Project Focus: Epic Conversion Support
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About Prime Staffing
At Prime Staffing, we understand the importance of finding the perfect fit for both our clients and candidates. Prime Staffing utilizes a unique matchmaking approach, providing the most qualified contingent staffing to our clients, and the most competitive contracts to our workforce. Our experienced team takes the time to get to know both our clients and candidates, their needs, and preferences, to ensure that each placement is a success.
We offer a wide range of staffing services including temporary, temp-to-perm, and direct hire placements. Our extensive network of qualified candidates includes nurses, allied healthcare professionals, corporate support professionals and executives.
Numbers & Facts
| Location | Templeton, CA |
| Industry | All |
| Company Size | 100 to 499 employees |
| Website | http://www.primestaffingnyc.com/ |
About Company
Prime Staffing is one of New York's leading staffing firms specializing in temporary and full-time/permanent placements across multiple industries including; healthcare, business, consulting, finance, legal services, entertainment, media, information Technology(IT) and retail.
Prime Staffing is certified by The Joint Commission for its compliance, and integrity, in supplying superior healthcare staffing services to many of the finest healthcare organizations in the country. In addition to its impeccable reputation for providing travel and per diem health care staffing, Prime has become an integral partner in staffing some of the most prestigious business organizations and Fortune 500 companies in the country including multi-national bank and investment firms, international business consulting firms, global law firms and some of the most prominent media and entertainment outlets.
Prime's success and rapid growth is direct result if its most basic founding principle-provide our clients with the most experienced and qualified employees and, likewise, provide our employees with the best jobs at the top organizations in their respective professional disciplines.
Prime Staffing is a high-energy company with a corporate culture that embraces innovation, new technology and personalized customer service. We are confident in our ability to serve you professionally by placing esteemed and experienced individuals. Our continuous expansions enables us to adapt to the continuously changing needs of our clients and employees. Through our team of seasoned professionals we maintain respect, integrity and superiority in all aspects of our business.
At Prime, we work diligently to recognize your objectives and create programs to meet them. We believe that ardent customer service is an essential component to remaining at the forefront of a competitive marketplace. Prime utilizes its expertise, and decades of combined experience in the industry, to continuously improve, implement cutting-edge programs and maintaining our position in the market as one of the fastest growing firms in the Tri-State area.
It is our goal to build long-term relationships with clients and employees based on a foundation of trust, mutual respect and our expertise in the field of staffing. We guarantee dependability, consistency and security in all aspects of operation. Prime Staffing is the Superior Staffing Solution.
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