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Med Surg Travel Nurse Jobs in New Hampshire

Sort medical surgical travel nursing jobs in New Hampshire by posted weekly pay, then weigh facility and shift across the state.

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    New Hampshire specialty fit by unit

    Med Surg Travel Nurse Jobs in New Hampshire can place the same generalist background into very different inpatient workflows. Manchester hospitals may separate postoperative, oncology, telemetry, and clinical-decision services, while seacoast and regional facilities can combine broader populations. The right fit depends on the patient groups and monitoring duties behind the title. Ask whether the floor receives fresh surgical admissions, extended-evaluation patients, or medical overflow, then confirm rhythm responsibilities, float destinations, discharge support, and night coverage. Also review how higher-acuity patients are identified and transferred, which competencies are checked during orientation, and whether travelers move between inpatient and observation-style settings.

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    Compare current New Hampshire floor activity

    Updated today

    Live listings show differences in unit focus, schedule, start timing, and how quickly each role is moving.

    5 Med Surg contracts are open in New Hampshire right now, with +2 added in the last 7 days and 2 already filled. Open postings have been live about 8 days on average.

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    Open Med Surg jobs
    8 days
    Median time active
    +2
    Added last 7 days
    NLC
    New Hampshire 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)
    15,390
    New Hampshire RNs employed statewide, employment count not license count (BLS OEWS, May 2025)
    1,160
    Projected New Hampshire RN shortage in full time RNs by 2038, long term projection not current openings (HRSA)

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

    Pay by city · Med Surg · New Hampshire

    Review weekly pay across New Hampshire markets

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    Compare live figures with shift, hospital role, specialty focus, floating, and the support built around each assignment.

    Highest weekly pay · Med Surg
    Lebanon
    $3,065
    Keene
    $2,268
    New London
    $2,177
    Portsmouth
    $2,062

    Use current pay beside the actual patient mix and monitoring responsibilities before ranking New Hampshire offers.

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

    Post-surgical and decision-unit contrasts

    Elliot Hospital's inpatient unit descriptions give New Hampshire travelers a concrete comparison between postoperative inpatient work and extended evaluation. Its Fuller Unit provides inpatient post-surgical care and telemetry monitoring across 55-60 beds for varied surgical patients. The hospital’s Clinical Decision Unit has 10 rooms for patients needing extended monitoring or testing without meeting inpatient admission criteria. Both figures describe one Manchester hospital rather than statewide unit standards. The contrast matters because a posting may emphasize surgical recovery, telemetry, or observation-style turnover even when the broader search category is Med Surg. Ask which patients are admitted, how long they typically remain, who owns rhythm monitoring, where travelers float, and what triggers transfer to a higher level of care. Match those answers to recent bedside experience instead of relying on the specialty label alone.

    Both figures describe one hospital’s unit layout, not a statewide staffing standard.

    New Hampshire facilities in current results

    Facility examples come from live or recent postings and may change; confirm the unit, patient population, and referral role with each hospital.

    Dartmouth Hitchcock Medical Center Magnet

    458 beds · Lebanon, NH

    Hiring now Cath Lab ER Oncology

    New Hampshire's only academic medical center and Level I trauma center, this 458-bed Magnet hospital in Lebanon includes the NCI-designated Dartmouth Cancer Center.

    Portsmouth Regional Hospital America's 50 Best

    240 beds · Portsmouth, NH

    Hiring now ER Inpatient Rehab Oncology Psych

    A Level II trauma and comprehensive stroke center in Portsmouth, NH, a 240-bed teaching hospital.

    Cheshire Medical Center

    150 beds · Keene, NH

    Hiring now Med Surg ER ICU Orthopedics

    Cheshire Medical Center, the only hospital in New Hampshire's Cheshire County, is a Dartmouth Health member hosting the NCI-designated Dartmouth Cancer Center's Keene site.

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    New Hampshire Med Surg Jobs: Small State, Real Answers

    What if my license is single-state and I want New Hampshire Med Surg work?
    Then endorsement into New Hampshire is your opening move, and it deserves to happen this week rather than after you've found a job you like. New Hampshire honors the compact, so multistate nurses living in compact states skip the board entirely; single-state nurses wait on it. In a market with this few hospitals, that wait is the difference between getting the floor you wanted and watching it fill.
    What certifications do New Hampshire Med Surg units expect?
    BLS as standard, and some New Hampshire units also require ACLS. One to two years of recent med-surg work anchors the profile; without it you're a harder submit. Smaller hospitals here often care as much about adaptability across a mixed patient population as about any certificate.
    How does Med Surg pay behave in a market as small as New Hampshire?
    It swings on a handful of openings, which is unit need doing the talking. When two or three floors need travelers at once, rates jump; when they fill, the numbers settle quickly. Cost of living tilts toward the Seacoast, and stipends follow it, while nights pay above days everywhere. The chart above tracks live weekly pay by city, and in New Hampshire, checking it often matters more than anywhere bigger.
    Is New Hampshire practical for a traveler to live in?
    Very. Manchester, Concord, and the Seacoast cluster within easy driving range, so one base reaches several hospitals, and the North Country's there when you want quieter options. The caveat is housing supply, which runs tight near the Seacoast especially. Line up the apartment as early as the contract itself, because in a small market the good units go first.