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OR Travel Nurse Jobs in South Carolina

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    South Carolina case depth and team support

    What teams expect from OR travel nurse jobs in South Carolina becomes clearer when recent case depth leads the conversation. Charleston, Columbia, Greenville, Spartanburg, and regional communities can differ in referral reach, transfer pathways, specialty backup, and call. Describe the general, orthopedic, cardiac, neuro, robotics, eye, and women's surgery work that reflects your current practice. Define the expected room role, including any sterile-field duties, preference-card learning, and equipment orientation. Ask which services remain onsite after hours and who supports anesthesia handoffs, recovery flow, sterile processing, breaks, and escalation. The strongest match is a team whose service breadth and level of independence align with practice you can demonstrate safely.

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    Review South Carolina listings by case breadth

    Updated today

    Match South Carolina roles to recent cases, transfer pathways, call, backup, and the breadth expected after orientation.

    6 Operating Room contracts are open in South Carolina right now, with +2 added in the last 7 days and 2 already filled. Open postings have been live about 43 days on average.

    6
    Open Operating Room jobs
    43 days
    Median time active
    +2
    Added last 7 days
    11,056
    South Carolina knee arthroplasty procedures; 54 hospitals reporting (CDC/NHSN 2024)
    Why demand stays strong
    8,703
    2024 South Carolina hip arthroplasty volume from 53 acute care hospitals (CDC/NHSN)
    3,534
    17 South Carolina hospitals reported CABG activity in 2024 (CDC/NHSN)
    3,277
    Spinal fusion procedures across 8 South Carolina 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 · South Carolina

    South Carolina weekly rates through case breadth and call

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    A live weekly figure can move with market, case breadth, shift, call, transfer duties, floating, and assignment urgency.

    Highest weekly pay · Operating Room
    Charleston
    $2,843
    Florence
    $2,383
    Myrtle Beach
    $2,041
    Camden
    $1,955

    Use the figure with the service mix, callback plan, transfer role, and support described by the hiring team.

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

    South Carolina hysterectomy and colon hospital data

    South Carolina's reported procedures cover women's and general surgery. For the 2024 reporting year, South Carolina's 48 hospitals submitted 4,729 abdominal hysterectomy procedures. The companion evidence is The CDC workbook counts 5,980 colon surgery procedures among 57 reporting hospitals in South Carolina for 2024. The tables show what participating hospitals submitted and do not describe every procedure pathway in the state. Abdominal hysterectomy and colon surgery represent different women's and general surgery workflows. Charleston, Columbia, Greenville, Spartanburg, and regional hospitals can vary in robotics, open-case mix, call, and referral support. Ask how the department divides those services, handles urgent additions, and supports complex positioning and specimens. The CDC figures cover reporting hospitals rather than all South Carolina procedures.

    South Carolina hysterectomy and colon counts reflect participating hospital submissions rather than total statewide procedures.
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    South Carolina OR Contracts: Practical Notes

    What would licensing for South Carolina OR work cost me?
    Zero, if your license is designated multistate and you live in a compact state; South Carolina takes that combination with no application and no fee. The costs only start if you're single-state or living outside the compact, in which case you'll pay South Carolina's endorsement fee and wait for the board to process it. Find out which lane you're in before budgeting the move.
    What do South Carolina OR postings screen for?
    BLS is always required; some South Carolina facilities require CNOR as well. Then it's case fit: Charleston, Columbia, and Greenville programs run cardiac, ortho, robotics, and women's surgery lines and want recent matching experience, while regional rooms reward breadth. The experience floor runs one to two recent years, facility by facility.
    How do I compare OR pay across South Carolina?
    City by city, using live numbers, because unit need, cost of living, and shift set each market's rates separately. Charleston stipends run coastal, Columbia and Greenville-Spartanburg price their own costs, and a room that sits open climbs wherever it is. Nights pay above days across all three. The chart above ranks this week's weekly pay by city, which is the comparison that actually matters when you're choosing between two contracts.
    What's the lay of the land for South Carolina OR travelers?
    Three anchor markets and a lot of steady middle. Charleston on the coast, Columbia in the center, and Greenville-Spartanburg upstate each run their own systems, with regional hospitals spread between them. They're two to three hours apart, so most travelers settle into one and stay put for the contract. Coastal housing runs tighter in season; upstate stays more predictable.