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OR Travel Nurse Jobs in Kansas

Compare travel operating room nurse jobs in Kansas, from Wichita surgical services to critical access hospitals across the state.

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    Which Kansas OR Setting Fits Your Recent Cases?

    Service breadth changes quickly between Kansas metro and regional facilities. OR travel nurse jobs in Kansas may involve Wichita or Kansas City specialty teams, Topeka community hospitals, or western settings with broader coverage and longer transfer pathways. Match the posting to recent orthopedic, general, eye, cardiac, or women's surgery work. Ask how rooms are assigned, which implant systems and equipment are standard, who supports urgent additions, and where complex cases move. Clarify call, relief coverage, and whether the traveler remains with one service or crosses the schedule. The role fits when its case range and backup match work you can perform independently.

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    Match Kansas OR postings to your recent cases

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    Use current listings to assess specialty mix, independent circulating scope, scrub duties, call, and backup.

    5 Operating Room contracts are open in Kansas right now. Open postings have been live about 45 days on average.

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    Open Operating Room jobs
    45 days
    Median time active
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    Added last 7 days
    3,510
    Kansas hip arthroplasty procedures; 30 hospitals reporting (CDC/NHSN 2024)
    Why demand stays strong
    2,507
    2024 Kansas abdominal hysterectomy volume from 26 acute care hospitals (CDC/NHSN)
    NLC
    Kansas is an implemented Nurse Licensure Compact state, multistate RN licenses accepted (NCSBN)
    54,144
    Kansas RN licenses currently active on file, licenses not employed nurse counts (NCSBN, 2026)

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

    Pay by city · OR · Kansas

    Compare Kansas rates by room scope and call

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    Weekly numbers can change with location, hospital or ASC workflow, service line, shift, call, floating, and coverage priority.

    Highest weekly pay · Operating Room
    Wichita
    $2,618
    Pratt
    $2,416
    Lenexa
    $2,285

    Use the Kansas figure after the posting names the service line, callback radius, weekend duties, and the backup available for urgent cases.

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

    Kansas case-mix signals across hospital teams

    Kansas travelers can compare orthopedic and general surgery expectations with direct state procedure counts. In the 2024 file, 28 Kansas hospitals account for 5,858 reported knee arthroplasty procedures. A different service line contributes For its 2024 colon surgery measure, Kansas has 2,687 procedures and 34 reporting hospitals. Neither value includes every facility, and the workbook is not a staffing or job-availability source. Knee arthroplasty and colon surgery point to different service-line demands within reporting hospitals. Wichita and Kansas City programs may use dedicated teams, while Topeka, Salina, Hutchinson, and regional facilities can ask for broader room ownership. Compare implant workflows, bowel-case experience, call coverage, and transfer relationships. The figures help define reported case mix, not the number of open assignments.

    Kansas counts reflect NHSN submissions for knee and colon procedures in 2024, not total state surgery or available contracts.
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    Kansas OR Travel Contracts: The Basics

    Is my license enough for an OR job in Kansas?
    If it says multistate and you live in a compact state, yes. Kansas has implemented the compact and accepts multistate licenses with nothing added. Kansas has 54,144 active RN licenses on file, but a license count isn't a headcount of nurses working, and yours only counts if both halves check out. Nursys will tell you.
    What credentials do Kansas OR jobs want?
    BLS as the baseline, CNOR as a preference. Service-line experience is what actually separates applications. Kansas reports hip arthroplasty at 30 hospitals and hysterectomy at 26, so the volume is concentrated in relatively few rooms. Name the services you've circulated and scrubbed instead of listing OR as a category.
    Why do Kansas OR jobs land so far apart on pay?
    Two things stack up. Which service the room runs sets most of it, and Kansas geography sets the rest, because a hospital with nothing else for a hundred miles is competing for almost nobody. Whatever a specific job carries is the hospital's and the unit's to explain. Live weekly pay by city is in the chart above.
    What should I have ready before a Kansas OR start?
    License class confirmed, BLS current, a service history specific enough to credential against, references who watched you work, and the compliance file finished. Screening runs on each hospital's own schedule. Front-load all of it at application rather than acceptance and the start date you wanted usually holds.
    Do Kansas OR markets behave differently?
    Yes, and mostly by isolation. Wichita, Topeka, and the Kansas City side hold the bigger rooms, while the rest of the state runs small. With arthroplasty reported at only 30 hospitals, which services you can even find depends heavily on the region. Decide where you'd live before you filter by service line.