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Operating Room · Arizona
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    Arizona OR market structure and fit

    OR travel nurse jobs in Arizona cross large referral hospitals, community programs, and ambulatory settings. Phoenix, Scottsdale, and Tucson may divide surgical work into specialty teams, while Flagstaff, Prescott, and regional markets can require different transfer and backup planning. Match the named service line to cases you have handled recently, then ask about robotics, implants, positioning support, resident participation, and room turnover. Clarify how urgent additions enter the schedule, which specialists remain onsite after hours, and whether the role stays within one team. Arizona's market is broad, but assignment fit comes from the department's case ownership and support model rather than from metro size alone.

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    Read Arizona OR opportunities by perioperative model

    Updated today

    Compare referral hospitals, community rooms, and ambulatory centers by service line, shift, call, and support.

    8 Operating Room contracts are open in Arizona right now, with +1 added in the last 7 days. Open postings have been live about 17 days on average.

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    Open Operating Room jobs
    17 days
    Median time active
    +1
    Added last 7 days
    8,687
    Arizona hip arthroplasty procedures; 44 hospitals reporting (CDC/NHSN 2024)
    Why demand stays strong
    8,137
    2024 Arizona knee arthroplasty volume from 42 acute care hospitals (CDC/NHSN)
    4,835
    49 Arizona hospitals reported abdominal hysterectomy activity in 2024 (CDC/NHSN)
    3,474
    Spinal fusion procedures across 5 Arizona hospitals, CDC/NHSN 2024

    Live counts from the jobs feed, updated daily. Demand figures from public workforce data, sources noted with each figure.

    Pay by city · OR · Arizona

    How Arizona setting and call shape live rates

    Live · updated today

    Use live pay data with the market, referral or ambulatory model, service line, shift, call, floating, and staffing priority.

    Highest weekly pay · Operating Room
    Mesa
    $2,647
    Fort Mohave
    $2,632
    Tucson
    $2,546
    Globe
    $2,466
    Glendale
    $2,413
    Gilbert
    $2,185

    Phoenix, Tucson, and regional figures should be weighed with specialty backup, case pace, and after-hours responsibility.

    Weekly pay reflects current open Advantis contracts — marketplace contract value, not a staff-nurse wage.

    Arizona colon cases and CABG hospital reporting

    Arizona's reported case mix separates general surgery from cardiac specialization. The 2024 state table shows 7,379 colon surgery procedures for Arizona and 57 participating hospitals. The second state entry records The 2024 NHSN workbook presents 1,083 coronary artery bypass graft procedures for Arizona, with 7 hospitals represented. Use the numbers to understand reported service activity, not to rank markets or predict openings. The two categories separate broad general surgery from specialized cardiac work. Phoenix and Tucson referral teams may offer dedicated cardiac resources, while regional roles can emphasize transfer pathways and a different mix of urgent cases. Ask about perfusion coverage, cardiac call, bowel-case experience, robotics, and after-hours specialist support. CDC reporting counts are service-line context, not a statewide total or demand forecast.

    Arizona figures cover participating hospitals in the colon and CABG tables and do not represent all OR capacity or staffing demand.

    What Arizona listing cards reveal about setting

    Facility cards use live or recently observed Arizona listings and can change when service lines alter traveler coverage.

    Tucson Medical Center Level I Trauma

    600 beds · Tucson, AZ

    Hiring now Operating Room ER Labor and Delivery NICU

    A 600-bed medical center serving Tucson, AZ, with maternity and newborn care, plus a NICU and a certified chest pain center.

    Banner - Desert Medical Center Level I Trauma

    206 beds · Desert Medical Center — Mesa, AZ

    Hiring now ER Labor and Delivery NICU Oncology

    A 206-bed teaching hospital in Mesa, AZ, providing Level I trauma care and a Level III NICU.

    Northwest Medical Center Level III Trauma

    300 beds · Tucson, AZ

    Hiring now ER ICU Med Surg Telemetry

    A 300-bed Tucson hospital upgraded to Level III trauma in late 2025, Northwest Medical Center runs a Joint Commission-certified stroke and chest pain program.

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    What Arizona OR Travelers Ask

    What if my license is single-state and I want an Arizona OR job?
    Then Arizona endorsement is your first move, ahead of browsing. Arizona is a compact member, so a multistate license plus compact-state residence clears you with zero filing, but the designation alone does not, and that gap is where start dates die. Look up your license class in Nursys before anything else goes on the shortlist.
    What credentials move an Arizona OR submission forward?
    BLS to begin, CNOR as a preference through CCI, and then the part that actually decides it: which rooms you have run. Arizona reports heavy hip and knee arthroplasty volume across dozens of hospitals, while spinal fusion concentrates in just five. Naming your services beats listing OR as a category. Facility by facility, the list changes.
    Why do Arizona OR contracts land so far apart on rate?
    A shared job title hides most of what matters. The service the room runs carries the bulk of the difference, and where the hospital sits relative to a nursing pool does the rest. Whatever a single posting attaches to itself is a facility and unit question, and your recruiter can pull it fast. Live weekly pay is ranked by city in the chart.
    What should be in hand before an Arizona OR start?
    License class settled, BLS live, a case history specific enough to credential against, referees from inside the room, and the compliance file complete. Phoenix and Tucson systems are the slow credentialers. Doing this at application rather than acceptance is the single habit that protects a start date.
    Do Arizona OR markets behave differently from each other?
    Distinctly. Phoenix and Scottsdale carry the high-volume elective rooms, Tucson runs its own academic and community mix, and Flagstaff plus the rural network operates at a different scale entirely. Spinal fusion, for one, sits in a handful of facilities statewide. Decide the market before you filter the service line.
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