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OR Travel Nurse Jobs in Colorado

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    Choosing a Colorado OR assignment

    Front Range and mountain facilities can ask for very different kinds of independence. For Colorado travelers, OR travel nurse jobs in Colorado can involve Denver or Colorado Springs specialty teams, regional hospitals, or remote settings where transfer planning matters more. Compare the listed cases with recent work and ask how implants, positioning, preference cards, and urgent additions are handled. Clarify which specialists remain available after hours, whether weather or distance changes escalation, and if the traveler stays within one service or supports a wider schedule. Colorado fit depends on room resources, transfer pathways, and the backup available when complexity rises.

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    Review live roles for setting, service line, shift, callback expectations, transfer support, and room responsibilities.

    13 Operating Room contracts are open in Colorado right now, with +7 added in the last 7 days and 2 already filled. Open postings have been live about 6 days on average.

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    Open Operating Room jobs
    6 days
    Median time active
    +7
    Added last 7 days
    9,684
    Colorado hip arthroplasty procedures; 54 hospitals reporting (CDC/NHSN 2024)
    Why demand stays strong
    9,428
    2024 Colorado spinal fusion volume from 29 acute care hospitals (CDC/NHSN)
    4,269
    16 Colorado hospitals reported laminectomy activity in 2024 (CDC/NHSN)
    4,121
    Abdominal hysterectomy procedures across 47 Colorado 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 · Colorado

    City, call, and case mix behind Colorado OR pay

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    City figures can move with facility type, shift, call rotation, service line, float expectations, and how quickly coverage is needed.

    Highest weekly pay · Operating Room
    Vail
    $2,730
    Glenwood Springs
    $2,550
    Colorado Springs
    $2,507
    Aurora
    $2,479
    Denver
    $2,479
    Kremmling
    $2,465
    Lone Tree
    $2,254
    Grand Junction
    $2,207

    Pair Denver-area and regional rates with callback distance, specialty backup, and the traveler scope named in the posting.

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

    Colorado hospital evidence across two service lines

    Colorado's hospital reporting highlights two case categories with different support needs. The colon surgery table attributes 5,525 procedures to 51 reporting hospitals in Colorado for 2024. For the second comparison point, CDC lists Within Colorado's 2024 data, 54 hospitals reported 12,841 procedures classified as knee arthroplasty. Because the tables cover reporting hospitals, the values should be used as case-mix context rather than a vacancy estimate. The pair reflects reported work in both general surgery and joint replacement. Front Range programs may separate those services, while mountain and regional hospitals may expect broader coverage and stronger transfer awareness. Compare implant support, complex positioning, urgent additions, and the distance to specialty backup. The figures frame case mix; they do not prove hiring demand or complete statewide volume.

    Colorado values come from hospitals submitting colon and knee data to NHSN in 2024, not every surgical facility or current opening.

    Front Range hospitals and mountain-town sites

    Displayed facilities reflect current or recently observed Colorado OR listings, not every hospital or surgery center in the state.

    Valley View Hospital Level III Trauma

    78 beds · Glenwood Springs, CO

    Hiring now Operating Room ER ICU Labor and Delivery

    A 78-bed hospital in Glenwood Springs, CO, designated a Level III trauma center by the state since 1998.

    Rose Medical Center Magnet

    422 beds · Denver, CO

    Hiring now Operating Room ER ICU Labor and Delivery

    Denver's “Baby Hospital,” Rose Medical Center is Magnet-recognized and delivers more babies than any other in the city.

    Presbyterian - St. Luke's Medical Center

    680 beds · Denver, CO

    Hiring now ER ICU Labor and Delivery Telemetry

    Presbyterian/St. Luke's runs a transplant program across its 680 Uptown Denver beds and shares a campus with HCA HealthONE Rocky Mountain Children's.

    Lutheran Hospital - Intermountain Magnet

    Golden, CO

    Hiring now Operating Room ER ICU Labor and Delivery

    West of Denver, a Magnet hospital with a comprehensive stroke center, a birthing center, and Colorado's first Senior Emergency Room.

    Medical Center of Aurora Magnet

    Aurora, CO

    Hiring now Operating Room ER ICU Labor and Delivery

    In Aurora, a Magnet hospital offering Level II trauma care, cardiac catheterization, and a primary stroke center.

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    Colorado OR Jobs: Practical Answers

    What if my license is single-state and I want a Colorado OR job?
    You apply to the Colorado Board of Nursing by endorsement, and you start that first. Colorado is a compact member, so a multistate license plus compact-state residence needs no filing at all, but a multistate designation without that residence does not qualify, which is the trap. Confirm your license class in Nursys before you shortlist anything.
    What credentials move a Colorado OR submission forward?
    BLS as the baseline and CNOR as a preference, with service-line experience doing the real work. Colorado reports substantial volume across hip arthroplasty, spinal fusion, laminectomy, and hysterectomy, and postings usually name the service. List the rooms you have actually worked instead of listing OR as a category. Requirements vary by facility.
    Why do Colorado OR contracts vary so much in weekly rate?
    The title hides almost everything that matters. Which service the room runs sets most of the number, and Colorado layers its two-market split on top: a rural hospital draws from a far smaller pool of nurses than an Aurora system does. Whatever attaches to one specific posting is a facility and unit matter, and your recruiter can pull it quickly.
    What should be in hand before a Colorado OR start?
    Your license class settled, BLS current, a service history specific enough to credential against, references from inside the room, and the compliance file done. Front Range systems are the slow ones. Do the paperwork at application, not at acceptance. That single habit protects more start dates than anything else on this list.
    Do Colorado OR markets behave differently from each other?
    Sharply. The hospital association describes a split state: major Front Range systems around Denver, Aurora, and Colorado Springs, and a broad rural network with a different scale of room entirely. Spinal fusion volume, for instance, concentrates in a small number of acute-care hospitals. Pick which market you want before you filter by service line.