Perioperative Nurse Jobs
Perioperative Nurse jobs are open across hospitals, ambulatory surgical centers, and specialty surgery practices, from new-grad RN to experienced charge nurse and clinical educator roles, with specializations in scrub, circulating, and PACU nursing. See the openings below and apply to the ones that match your experience.
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Full-Time Night Position
- No Weekends, No Holidays, No On-Call
- Max 3:1 nurse to patient ratio
- Must be flexible with availability
- 2-3 shifts weekly
- 12 hour shifts
- Night differential
Summary: RN provides competent and skilled nursing care to patients post-operatively following total joint and/or multi-level spine surgeries.
Essential Job Responsibilities with demonstrated competency:
- Communication of processes and planned treatments with patient and significant others to gain cooperation, understanding, and trust and allay apprehension while reaching mutual consent in care approach.
- Communicates patient education based on individualized needs of the patient, as requested by Physician and/or facility policy to optimize the patient’s preparation for surgery and continued care upon discharge.
- Directs care of the patient in accordance with physician orders, including astute assessment of patient responses to medical treatment, therapeutic response to prescribed medications, ability to recognize significant conditions and adverse reactions, and effectively communicates patient's condition, progress, and reaction to drugs, treatments, and or significant change in condition with physician, peers & family.
- Obtains concurrent vital signs to detect deviations from expected normal values and assesses condition for changing patient status and independently intervenes with appropriate care.
- Conducts comprehensive health history interviews, ordering diagnostic tests as directed by anesthesia orders, interprets results and determines when consultation by anesthesia or other specialist is required.
- Plans and delivers direct patient care based upon evidence-based standards, facility policies, procedures, protocols or processes.
- Maintains awareness of specific needs of patient including but not limited to: comfort; pain relief; anxiety relief; cultural and spiritual diversity; age specificity; protection of natural reflexes until emergence from anesthesia; prevention of surgical site infection; hydration; thermoregulation; hemodynamics; accurate point of care diagnostic testing; and plans interventions accordingly.
- Accurately communicates continuum of direct patient care verbally and in writing of initial assessment of baseline medical and surgical history, allergies and physical conditions and re-assessments of treatments, medications administered, and general patient progress.
- Applies experiential knowledge for making decisions specific to efficiencies and time management to optimize workflow.
Qualifications:
To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential job responsibilities at the minimum level of competent and proficient or expert is preferred. The requirements listed above are representative of the abilities, knowledge, and skill required for employment.
Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.
Education/Experience:
- Associate degree (A.A.) or equivalent from two-year accredited School of Nursing or
- Baccalaureate degree (B.S.) from four-year accredited School of Nursing
- Current license from State Board of Nursing
- Current BLS certification required
- Current ACLS certification required (to administer Moderate Sedation or PACU position)
- Current PALS certification required
- Advanced knowledge in critical thinking, and applied critical care nursing practice
- Specialized knowledge, skill and abilities in empirical & practical perioperative nursing.
- Knowledge in aesthetic practice of nursing.
- Orthopedic, Med Surg, ICU, ER, Acute Care experience required.
- Pain and Spine experience preferred.
Job Type: Full-time
Pay: $35.00 - $40.00 per hour
Expected hours: No less than 24.0 per week
Benefits:
- Dental insurance
- Employee assistance program
- Flexible schedule
- Flexible spending account
- Health insurance
- Health savings account
- Life insurance
- Paid time off
- Retirement plan
- Vision insurance
Shift availability:
- Night Shift (Required)
Work Location: In person
Full-Time Night Position
- No Weekends, No Holidays, No On-Call
- Max 3:1 nurse to patient ratio
- Must be flexible with availability
- 2-3 shifts weekly
- 12 hour shifts
- Night differential
Summary: RN provides competent and skilled nursing care to patients post-operatively following total joint and/or multi-level spine surgeries.
Essential Job Responsibilities with demonstrated competency:
- Communication of processes and planned treatments with patient and significant others to gain cooperation, understanding, and trust and allay apprehension while reaching mutual consent in care approach.
- Communicates patient education based on individualized needs of the patient, as requested by Physician and/or facility policy to optimize the patient’s preparation for surgery and continued care upon discharge.
- Directs care of the patient in accordance with physician orders, including astute assessment of patient responses to medical treatment, therapeutic response to prescribed medications, ability to recognize significant conditions and adverse reactions, and effectively communicates patient's condition, progress, and reaction to drugs, treatments, and or significant change in condition with physician, peers & family.
- Obtains concurrent vital signs to detect deviations from expected normal values and assesses condition for changing patient status and independently intervenes with appropriate care.
- Conducts comprehensive health history interviews, ordering diagnostic tests as directed by anesthesia orders, interprets results and determines when consultation by anesthesia or other specialist is required.
- Plans and delivers direct patient care based upon evidence-based standards, facility policies, procedures, protocols or processes.
- Maintains awareness of specific needs of patient including but not limited to: comfort; pain relief; anxiety relief; cultural and spiritual diversity; age specificity; protection of natural reflexes until emergence from anesthesia; prevention of surgical site infection; hydration; thermoregulation; hemodynamics; accurate point of care diagnostic testing; and plans interventions accordingly.
- Accurately communicates continuum of direct patient care verbally and in writing of initial assessment of baseline medical and surgical history, allergies and physical conditions and re-assessments of treatments, medications administered, and general patient progress.
- Applies experiential knowledge for making decisions specific to efficiencies and time management to optimize workflow.
Qualifications:
To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential job responsibilities at the minimum level of competent and proficient or expert is preferred. The requirements listed above are representative of the abilities, knowledge, and skill required for employment.
Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.
Education/Experience:
- Associate degree (A.A.) or equivalent from two-year accredited School of Nursing or
- Baccalaureate degree (B.S.) from four-year accredited School of Nursing
- Current license from State Board of Nursing
- Current BLS certification required
- Current ACLS certification required (to administer Moderate Sedation or PACU position)
- Current PALS certification required
- Advanced knowledge in critical thinking, and applied critical care nursing practice
- Specialized knowledge, skill and abilities in empirical & practical perioperative nursing.
- Knowledge in aesthetic practice of nursing.
- Orthopedic, Med Surg, ICU, ER, Acute Care experience required.
- Pain and Spine experience preferred.
Job Type: Full-time
Pay: $35.00 - $40.00 per hour
Expected hours: No less than 24.0 per week
Benefits:
- Dental insurance
- Employee assistance program
- Flexible schedule
- Flexible spending account
- Health insurance
- Health savings account
- Life insurance
- Paid time off
- Retirement plan
- Vision insurance
Shift availability:
- Night Shift (Required)
Work Location: In person
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What Employers Look For
The qualifications that appear most often in perioperative nurse jobs.
- Active RN licensure in the state of employment
- CNOR certification or eligibility within a specified timeframe
- Current BLS and ACLS certification
- Minimum one to two years of perioperative or surgical services experience
- Demonstrated competency in scrub, circulating, or PACU nursing roles
- Familiarity with sterile technique and surgical instrumentation protocols
Tips for Your Perioperative Nurse Job Search
Tailor your resume to each specialty
Scrub, circulating, and PACU roles each require a different skill emphasis. Reorder your bullet points so the competencies most relevant to the specific perioperative setting you're targeting appear in the first third of your experience section.
List every certification explicitly
CNOR, BLS, ACLS, and AORN membership all carry weight in perioperative hiring. Spell each one out in a dedicated credentials section so recruiters and applicant tracking systems catch them before they ever read your work history.
Apply early to roles that fit
Migrate Mate lists perioperative nurse openings from across the United States in one place, so you can find roles that match and apply directly to each listing.
Target postings by surgical service line
Cardiovascular, orthopedic, neurosurgical, and robotics-assisted OR suites each have distinct equipment and protocol expectations. Search by service line rather than just job title to find openings where your specific case experience is a direct match.
Prepare case-count answers before interviews
Hiring managers for perioperative roles routinely ask how many cases you've scrubbed or circulated in a given specialty per week. Have specific, honest numbers ready for your top two or three service lines so you can answer without hesitation.
Negotiate your on-call and weekend obligations
OR schedules vary significantly between facilities, and on-call frequency affects total compensation more than many candidates realize. Ask about the call ratio, weekend rotation, and add-on case expectations before accepting any offer.
Perioperative Nurse Jobs: Frequently Asked Questions
Which companies are hiring the most perioperative nurses?
Kaiser Permanente, US Department of Veterans Affairs, and UF Health are hiring the most perioperative nurses right now, with openings concentrated in New York, California, and Tennessee, based on current listings on Migrate Mate as of November 2026. Volume tends to be highest at large health systems and ambulatory surgery center networks expanding their outpatient surgical capacity.
How many perioperative nurse jobs are remote?
About 4% of perioperative nurse openings are fully remote or hybrid as of November 2026, reflecting the hands-on nature of surgical floor work. The sub-areas most likely to offer remote or telehealth components include perioperative care coordination, surgical case scheduling, and clinical education roles that don't require direct OR scrub or circulating duties.
How do you become a perioperative nurse?
You start by earning your registered nurse license through an accredited ADN or BSN program and passing the NCLEX-RN. From there, most nurses enter perioperative practice through a hospital's new-grad OR residency or a structured perioperative nursing internship. After gaining hands-on experience in scrub, circulating, or PACU roles, you can sit for the CNOR exam through the Competency and Credentialing Institute to validate your specialty credentials.
Can you get a perioperative nurse job with little experience?
Yes, many hospitals and ambulatory surgery centers hire newly licensed RNs directly into perioperative roles through dedicated OR residency programs that run several months and cover sterile technique, instrument handling, and circulating responsibilities. Highlighting clinical rotations in surgical settings, any exposure to procedural areas like GI or interventional radiology, and a willingness to complete facility-specific training strengthens your application considerably when formal OR experience is limited.
What does the perioperative nurse interview process look like?
Most perioperative nurse interviews begin with a phone or video screen focused on your clinical background and specialty experience. An in-person or virtual panel interview follows, typically involving a nurse manager and one or more OR charge nurses who ask scenario-based questions about sterile field management, emergency response, and team communication. Some facilities also include a brief skills assessment or a walk-through of their surgical suite before extending an offer.
Where can I find and apply to perioperative nurse jobs?
You can find and apply to perioperative nurse jobs on Migrate Mate, which lists current openings from across the United States. Search for roles that fit your specialty, experience level, and preferred setting, then apply directly to each listing that matches what you're looking for.
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