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OR Travel Nurse Jobs in Massachusetts

Browse travel operating room nurse jobs in Massachusetts by city or ZIP, with Boston and statewide results ordered by distance.

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    Academic and community OR roles in Massachusetts

    Teaching structure changes the practical work behind a Massachusetts OR title. OR travel nurse jobs in Massachusetts can involve Boston academic services, community hospitals, or outpatient programs with different resident roles and specialty boundaries. Compare the named service with your recent orthopedic, cardiac, neuro, transplant, or general surgery experience. Ask how residents, fellows, attendings, scrub staff, and circulators divide responsibilities. Clarify orientation to implants, robotics, preference cards, documentation, late rooms, and relief coverage. A useful interview should explain whether the traveler joins a dedicated team or rotates across services, and what skills must be independent at the end of orientation.

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    Review Massachusetts OR roles by teaching model

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    Compare academic, community, and ambulatory listings by service team, shift, call, and traveler function.

    9 Operating Room contracts are open in Massachusetts right now and 3 already filled. Open postings have been live about 23 days on average.

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    Open Operating Room jobs
    23 days
    Median time active
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    Added last 7 days
    6,792
    Massachusetts colon surgery procedures; 54 hospitals reporting (CDC/NHSN 2024)
    Why demand stays strong
    3,527
    2024 Massachusetts CABG volume from 13 acute care hospitals (CDC/NHSN)
    3,521
    10 Massachusetts hospitals reported spinal fusion activity in 2024 (CDC/NHSN)
    3,264
    Abdominal hysterectomy procedures across 46 Massachusetts 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 · Massachusetts

    Teaching and community pay variables in Massachusetts

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    Academic service, community coverage, call, shift, and specialty ownership can explain why displayed Massachusetts rates differ.

    Highest weekly pay · Operating Room
    Boston
    $2,840
    Newton
    $2,414
    Northampton
    $2,397
    Salem
    $2,372
    Gardner
    $2,370
    Concord
    $1,932

    Use Boston-area and western Massachusetts numbers with team structure, resident involvement, and after-hours duties.

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

    What Massachusetts joint reporting shows travelers

    Massachusetts reporting offers a focused view of joint-replacement work. CDC's Massachusetts entry records 11,929 hip arthroplasty procedures across 52 acute care hospitals in 2024. Another procedure category shows CDC shows 54 participating hospitals and 13,599 knee arthroplasty procedures for Massachusetts in 2024. The source does not claim complete statewide volume and offers no evidence about current recruiting. Both measures concern joint replacement in reporting acute care hospitals. Boston-area teaching programs may use dedicated orthopedic teams, residents, and specialized implant workflows, while community roles can combine joint cases with a wider schedule. Compare block structure, positioning support, vendor coordination, relief coverage, and how unfamiliar implant systems are introduced. The counts support orthopedic context without describing every Massachusetts procedure or current staffing need.

    The Massachusetts figures reflect hospitals reporting hip and knee procedures to CDC in 2024 and should not be read as complete state volume.

    Boston academic centers and community rooms

    Facility cards summarize current or recently observed Massachusetts OR roles and do not represent the full market.

    Salem Hospital Level III Trauma

    212 beds · Salem, MA

    Hiring now Operating Room ER Labor and Delivery Med Surg

    A 212-bed hospital in Salem, MA, providing Level III trauma care, labor and delivery, and pediatric services.

    Newton-Wellesley Hospital USN #7 MA '26

    273 beds · Newton, MA

    Hiring now Operating Room ER Labor and Delivery Oncology

    A 273-bed hospital serving Newton, MA, with maternity and newborn care, along with an academic teaching affiliation.

    Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center Magnet

    766 beds · Boston, MA

    Hiring now Operating Room ER Oncology

    A 766-bed teaching hospital serving Boston, MA, with transplant services, along with Level I trauma designation.

    Boston Medical Center Magnet

    514 beds · Boston, MA

    Hiring now Operating Room ER ICU Med Surg

    A 514-bed medical center in Boston, MA, with acute inpatient and surgical care, plus Level I trauma care.

    NSMC Salem Hospital USN #9 MA '26

    212 beds · Salem, MA

    Hiring now Operating Room ER ICU Labor and Delivery

    The North Shore's largest provider, this 212-bed Salem hospital ranks #9 in Massachusetts by U.S. News.

    Good to know

    Massachusetts OR Contracts: The Basics

    What license do I need for an OR job in Massachusetts?
    A Massachusetts license by endorsement, whatever your home state issued. The compact is enacted here but not implemented, so a multistate or compact license buys you nothing today and every traveler takes the same route through the Board of Registration in Nursing. Start it early, because it is the gate on every start date in the state.
    What do Massachusetts OR postings want to see?
    BLS as the baseline and CNOR as a preference, with service-line depth doing the real work. The state's hospitals run substantial volume across colon surgery, hysterectomy, and general procedures, and postings usually name the service. List the rooms you've actually worked, ortho, CV, neuro, robotics, or general, rather than OR as a category.
    Why do Massachusetts OR rates vary within a small state?
    Because the variables are not geographic. Service line and shift move the weekly number more than the drive from Boston does, and two contracts twenty miles apart can land far apart on the ranking. The specifics behind any one of them vary by facility and unit, so your recruiter can pull them. The chart on this page shows where the cities stand right now.
    What holds up a Massachusetts OR submission?
    The license, most often, followed by service-line documentation that's too vague to credential against. Get the board application filed, get your case history specific, and have BLS, references, and the compliance packet finished before you accept. Academic systems here credential slowly, and the paperwork you skip early is the paperwork that moves the start date.