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OR Travel Nurse Jobs in Missouri

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    Missouri referral regions and team structure

    Region by region, OR travel nurse jobs in Missouri can lead to a different room structure. St. Louis and Kansas City include referral hospitals, specialty teams, and outpatient centers, while Columbia and Springfield can combine regional surgical coverage with transfer responsibilities. Compare orthopedic, cardiac, neuro, general, eye, and women's surgery needs with your recent cases. Ask whether travelers join a dedicated service or rotate broadly, how call is divided, and where backup comes from for urgent cases. Missouri roles also differ in resident involvement, robotics, sterile processing support, and handoffs with pre op and PACU. Use geography as a clue, then verify the actual service line, staffing model, and after hours expectations with the hiring team.

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    Follow Missouri OR openings across regional hubs

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    Review St. Louis, Kansas City, Columbia, Springfield, and regional assignments by service line and call.

    5 Operating Room contracts are open in Missouri right now, with +2 added in the last 7 days and 2 already filled. Open postings have been live about 31 days on average.

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    Open Operating Room jobs
    31 days
    Median time active
    +2
    Added last 7 days
    13,302
    Missouri hip arthroplasty procedures; 59 hospitals reporting (CDC/NHSN 2024)
    Why demand stays strong
    9,446
    2024 Missouri spinal fusion volume from 29 acute care hospitals (CDC/NHSN)
    7,901
    63 Missouri hospitals reported colon surgery activity in 2024 (CDC/NHSN)
    5,510
    Abdominal hysterectomy procedures across 56 Missouri 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 · Missouri

    Across Missouri regions, read live OR pay

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    Weekly offers can differ by region, facility model, service line, shift, call schedule, floating, and coverage timing.

    Highest weekly pay · Operating Room
    Springfield
    $2,423
    Independence
    $2,285
    Lee's Summit
    $2,264
    Kansas City
    $2,064
    Cape Girardeau
    $1,973

    Use the rate with resident involvement, transfer duties, room support, and the after-hours role described by the manager.

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

    Missouri CABG and knee procedure snapshot

    Missouri's evidence spans cardiac and orthopedic services. For Missouri, the current table contains 4,423 coronary artery bypass graft procedures reported by 24 hospitals during 2024. A related table provides In Missouri, 49 reporting hospitals recorded 16,086 knee arthroplasty procedures for the 2024 dataset. These figures document submitted procedures without measuring room capacity, vacancies, or contract supply. Cardiac bypass and knee replacement require different specialty teams, equipment, and call arrangements. St. Louis and Kansas City referral programs may offer dedicated services, while Columbia, Springfield, and regional hospitals can structure coverage differently. Ask about perfusion, implant support, room assignment, emergency backup, and whether the traveler crosses service lines. These figures document reported procedures, not vacancies or a complete state total.

    Missouri's CABG and knee counts come from separate reporting groups and should not be added or treated as a statewide workload total.
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    Missouri OR Travel Jobs, Answered

    Where do I check that my license actually works in Missouri?
    Nursys. It takes about a minute and shows the two things that matter: whether your license is really designated multistate, and your state of residence on file. Missouri honors the compact, so if the designation is there and you live in a compact state, there's nothing to file. If either piece is off, you'll endorse into Missouri first, and that runs on the board's clock.
    Do Missouri OR jobs require CNOR?
    BLS is always required. Some facilities also require CNOR, and your recruiter can verify the exact certification requirements on any contract. An important factor is which cases you've run lately: St. Louis and Kansas City programs staff cardiac, neuro, ortho, and general lines and want recent, matching experience. Expect most facilities to look for a year or two of recent OR time.
    How are weekly rates set for Missouri OR contracts?
    They're built from a few concrete inputs: the unit's need, since a room that has to fill pays more; the cost of living where the job sits, which drives the stipend portion; and the shift, with nights typically above days. That's why St. Louis, Columbia, and Springfield don't post the same numbers. The live chart above shows where each city stands this week. Specifics vary by facility and contract, so your recruiter is the one to walk you through an actual offer.
    Is the OR work different outside St. Louis and Kansas City?
    Often, yes. The two metros hold most of the referral hospitals and the dedicated specialty teams. Columbia and Springfield run strong regional programs that can carry transfer responsibilities, and their rooms tend to ask for broader coverage from one nurse. Neither is better; they're different jobs. Decide which one fits before you compare postings.