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Med Surg Travel Nurse Jobs in Missouri

Search medical surgical travel nursing jobs in Missouri with the compact filter on, then compare St. Louis and Kansas City floors.

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    Missouri Floors Require a Setting Check

    Med Surg Travel Nurse Jobs in Missouri span large metro floors, regional community hospitals, and rural inpatient settings with different support patterns. The facility matters because a general medical floor may share capacity with observation, postoperative care, or telemetry, while another keeps those services separate. Compare Kansas City, Missouri, and St. Louis assignments with Springfield and rural placements by unit purpose, patient mix, transfer role, and specialist backup. Ask how admissions arrive, which patients trigger telemetry, when nurses float, and who manages deteriorating patients before transfer. Travelers should also confirm weekend resources, discharge coordination, and whether swing bed or overflow patients enter the assignment. Those details reveal whether the role matches your recent bedside practice.

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    Compare Live Missouri Assignment Details

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    Use live results to weigh weekly pay with shift, facility, floating, and unit scope.

    15 Med Surg contracts are open in Missouri right now, with +6 added in the last 7 days and 2 already filled. Open postings have been live about 15 days on average.

    15
    Open Med Surg jobs
    15 days
    Median time active
    +6
    Added last 7 days
    NLC
    Missouri participates in the Nurse Licensure Compact, multistate RN licenses recognized (NCSBN)
    Why demand stays strong
    8%
    Projected national RN shortage for 2028, easing to 3% by 2038 (HRSA Nurse Workforce Projections)
    76,310
    Missouri RNs employed statewide, employment count not license count (BLS OEWS, May 2025)
    122,176
    Active Missouri RN licenses on file, license count not employed nurses (NCSBN, 2026)

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

    Pay by city · Med Surg · Missouri

    Live Weekly Pay Across Missouri Cities

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    Use the city view to compare live weekly pay alongside facility type, shift, floating expectations, and assignment details.

    Highest weekly pay · Med Surg
    St. Louis
    $2,181
    Kirksville
    $1,993
    Joplin
    $1,973
    Kansas City
    $1,923
    Lee's Summit
    $1,923
    Cape Girardeau
    $1,854

    A city label does not define the floor, so confirm unit scope and support before weighing one offer against another.

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

    Missouri ward quality and rural floor reach

    Missouri's rural hospital network and ward surveillance describe different parts of assignment fit. In the CDC 2024 acute-care tables, Missouri's ward, non-critical-care CLABSI standardized infection ratio is 0.769. The Missouri Department of Health and Senior Services separately identifies 62 rural licensed hospitals with medical/surgical beds. The SIR is a risk-adjusted infection measure, not a staffing ratio or hospital ranking. The rural count shows where licensed medical/surgical capacity exists, but it does not define unit size, staffing, or traveler openings. Use the pairing to ask whether the role is a general Med Surg floor, a combined monitored service, or a rural inpatient unit that also supports observation and transfer work. Confirm line-care practices, hospitalist and pharmacy coverage, respiratory support, weekend resources, float boundaries, and the process for moving patients whose acuity exceeds the floor.

    The SIR is statewide ward surveillance; the hospital count does not define unit size.

    Missouri Facilities in Live Listings

    Facility examples reflect live or recent listings and may change. Use them to compare floor setting, unit scope, and regional coverage, not as a complete market list.

    Mercy Hospital Springfield Level I Trauma

    886 beds · Springfield, MO

    Hiring now ER ICU NICU Oncology

    In Springfield, MO, an 886-bed hospital offering comprehensive stroke care, ECMO, and a verified burn center.

    Mercy Hospital South Level II Trauma

    767 beds · St. Louis, MO

    Hiring now Med Surg ER ICU Labor and Delivery

    The only Level II trauma center in south St. Louis County, the 767-bed Mercy South runs a Comprehensive Stroke Center and Level II NICU.

    Mercy Hospital Southeast

    251 beds · Cape Girardeau, MO

    Hiring now Med Surg ER ICU Labor and Delivery

    In Cape Girardeau, Mercy Hospital Southeast pairs 251 acute-care beds with a dedicated cancer center and obstetric services for the southeast Missouri region.

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    Missouri Med Surg Travel Jobs: Full Picture

    Is Missouri in the compact for Med Surg travel jobs?
    It is. Missouri honors a multistate or compact license with nothing to file, so licensing adds zero days for most travelers here. A single-state license means the Missouri endorsement application comes first, and that's measured in weeks rather than days, so start it before you fall for a particular floor.
    What do Missouri Med Surg floors require?
    BLS without exception, and some Missouri units also require ACLS. The dependable core is one to two years of recent med-surg experience. Hospitals write their own versions of the requirements, so treat the pattern as a guide and let your recruiter verify the actual list on each contract.
    How different is Med Surg pay between Missouri's markets?
    More than the map suggests, because unit need, cost of living, and shift all differ across it. St. Louis and Kansas City stipends track metro prices, Columbia and Springfield run their own middles, and rural floors pay real premiums when they've sat open. Nights add to any of them. Check the live chart above for current weekly pay by city, and weigh it against housing in each place. The rest of an offer's shape varies by facility and contract, so let your recruiter unpack a specific one.
    Is rural Missouri Med Surg work worth considering?
    For plenty of travelers, yes. Missouri keeps a wide network of rural hospitals with med-surg beds, and those floors post persistently because they're competing with two metros for the same nurses. The trade is broader patient variety and quieter towns against thinner backup and longer drives. Rates often sweeten the deal; whether it fits is about you, not the market.
    Which Missouri cities should I watch for openings?
    St. Louis and Kansas City carry the volume between them, and they're on opposite ends of the state. Columbia and Springfield add steady mid-size demand, and the rural network fills in everywhere else. The two metros are four hours apart, so treat them as separate searches. Most travelers pick a side of the state and work it.
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