CVOR Travel Nursing Jobs

Working as cardiovascular operating room nurse or tech is an incredibly challenging but rewarding role — you get to help give patients new life! Demand is consistently high for CVOR nurses and other healthcare professionals to work in CVOR, and that means there are many high-paying CVOR travel nursing jobs in exciting locations nationwide!

CVOR Travel Nursing Career

A career in CVOR travel nursing is a great way for you to avoid nurse burnout — working in healthcare anywhere is still very demanding but being able to move between a variety of locations and facilities can help keep you fresher and more motivated. It’s also a great way to sharpen your skills, avoid hospital politics, continue to learn from a variety of colleagues and facilities, and improve your resume. When you travel with Medical Solutions, you’ll also earn great money and have great benefits.

Cardiovascular Operating Room RN Requirements

To be successful working in the CVOR you must be hard-working, highly organized, an excellent team player, able to function well in a high-stress environment, good with machinery, highly compassionate, highly flexible, an excellent problem-solver, and have impeccable attention to detail.

The goal in the cardiovascular operating room is to provide successful services and perform successful cardiovascular (open-heart) and sometimes lung surgeries. The CVOR nurses has a key role in orchestrating a successful surgery, with duties that include documenting and assessing the patient’s status and vitals before, during, and after surgery; ensuring and operating necessary machinery; applying dressings and cleaning the incision site; administering medications; ensuring patient safety and sterile procedure before, during, and after surgery; assisting the surgeon; and planning and monitoring the care plan at every stage of the journey. CVOR nurses may also assist with anesthesia/sedation.

Despite the fast pace, it’s critical for CVOR nurses and surgical techs to maintain their composure and deliver well-organized, compassionate care in this critical, high stakes setting.

Who Works in the CVOR?

A wide range of healthcare professionals work in the cardiovascular operating room in order to properly serve their patients before, during, and after a very serious surgery. CVOR team members can include CVOR RNs, surgical techs, anesthesiologists, surgeons, administrative staff, and social workers/case managers.

Who’s Treated in the CVOR?

Patients who visit the cardiovascular operating room are, as the name suggests, there for cardiovascular surgery, also often referred to as open-heart surgery. So, the patients have some type of cardiovascular ailment, condition, or emergency that has necessitated their cardiovascular surgery. These patients can either be very ill and/or really depending on their surgeries to give them new life — so the stakes are very high in this unit. Patients could get procedures that include heart valve replacement or repair, heart transplant, artificial heart insertion (TAH), coronary artery bypass grafting, pacemaker insertion, maze surgery, aneurysm repair, ventricular assist device insertion (VAD), insertion of implantable cardioverter defibrillator (ICD), or other such procedures.

Quick CVOR Facts

• Commonly required CVOR RN education: Associate Degree in Nursing (ADN) and/or Bachelor of Science in Nursing (BSN), plus passing the National Council Licensure Examination (NCLEX)
• Commonly required CVOR certifications: Basic Life Support (BLS)
• Commonly preferred CVOR certifications: Advanced Cardiovascular Life Support (ACLS), Certified Perioperative Nurse (CNOR), Pediatric Advanced Life Support (PALS)
• Commonly required experience to become a travel CVOR RN: Facilities typically require a minimum of two years of recent, in-hospital experience in order to hire you as an CVOR travel nurse. You’ll want the benefit of experience since travel nurses have to hit the ground running!
• Average annual CVOR RN salary range: $65,000-$115,000
• Locations where CVOR RNs are in high demand: Demand for CVOR RNs is growing nationwide! California, North Dakota, New York, Massachusetts, Virginia, and Alaska reflect high demand with higher average home health RN salaries.