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OR Travel Nurse Jobs in Tennessee

Browse travel operating room nurse jobs in Tennessee in one sitting: Nashville, Memphis, Knoxville, and the regional hospitals between.

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    Tennessee OR roles through a regional lens

    Region should lead the first pass through OR travel nurse jobs in Tennessee. Nashville and Memphis can connect travelers with complex referral services and specialized teams, while Knoxville, Chattanooga, the Tri-Cities, Jackson, and surrounding communities may use different transfer networks, call plans, and service breadth. Compare the posting with your recent cardiac, neuro, orthopedic, general, robotics, eye, or women's surgery cases. Ask whether travelers circulate, scrub, or cover both functions and how orientation addresses preference cards and equipment. Resident involvement, anesthesia coverage, sterile processing, break relief, and recovery handoffs can change across facilities. Geography helps organize the search, but the hiring conversation should confirm the room model, after hours duties, and level of independence expected.

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    Read Tennessee OR postings through referral patterns

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    Compare Nashville, Memphis, Knoxville, Chattanooga, and regional roles by service team, call, and support.

    5 Operating Room contracts are open in Tennessee right now, with +2 added in the last 7 days and 1 already filled. Open postings have been live about 7 days on average.

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    Open Operating Room jobs
    7 days
    Median time active
    +2
    Added last 7 days
    7,630
    Tennessee colon surgery procedures; 76 hospitals reporting (CDC/NHSN 2024)
    Why demand stays strong
    6,810
    2024 Tennessee hip arthroplasty volume from 43 acute care hospitals (CDC/NHSN)
    NLC
    Tennessee is an implemented Nurse Licensure Compact state, multistate RN licenses accepted (NCSBN)
    4,485
    Abdominal hysterectomy procedures across 68 Tennessee 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 · Tennessee

    Tennessee rates through referral depth and call

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    Weekly figures can move with region, facility role, service line, shift, call, floating, team support, and assignment priority.

    Highest weekly pay · Operating Room
    Nashville
    $2,452
    Memphis
    $2,276
    Johnson City
    $1,800
    Kingsport
    $1,800

    Nashville, Memphis, Knoxville, Chattanooga, and regional offers become comparable after the work model is clear.

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

    Tennessee cardiac reporting with orthopedic context

    Tennessee's state tables contrast cardiac and orthopedic procedure activity. 5,130 procedures in the coronary artery bypass graft category were submitted by 20 Tennessee hospitals for 2024. A separate state record presents The knee arthroplasty table attributes 7,212 procedures to 40 reporting hospitals in Tennessee for 2024. Because the counts come from surveillance reporting, they are narrower than a complete state utilization census. Cardiac bypass and knee replacement point to different service-line staffing, equipment, and call models. Nashville and Memphis referral programs may use dedicated teams, while Knoxville, Chattanooga, the Tri-Cities, Jackson, and regional hospitals can combine broader coverage with transfer responsibilities. Ask about perfusion, implant support, urgent additions, and service ownership. The counts represent reporting hospitals rather than every Tennessee procedure.

    Tennessee CABG and knee figures reflect 2024 NHSN submissions and are service-line context rather than a vacancy or demand measure.
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    Tennessee OR Travel Jobs: Quick Answers

    What's the fastest way to confirm my license works in Tennessee?
    Look yourself up in Nursys. You're checking two boxes: that the license is genuinely designated multistate, and that your home state is in the compact. Tennessee's a member, so both boxes checked means nothing to file and no board wait. One unchecked means endorsing into Tennessee first. It's a one-minute lookup that saves weeks of surprise.
    What will Tennessee ORs expect me to bring?
    BLS is always required, and some Tennessee facilities also require CNOR. More than any certificate, though, they want recent cases that fit their rooms: Nashville and Memphis referral programs staff dedicated cardiac, neuro, and ortho teams, while regional ORs across east and west Tennessee often want broader coverage. The usual experience ask is one to two recent years, and it shifts by facility.
    Is OR pay consistent across Tennessee?
    No, and it shouldn't be. Rates track unit need, local cost of living, and shift, and those differ from Memphis to Nashville to Knoxville to Chattanooga. A regional room that badly needs coverage can beat a metro rate, stipends follow each city's prices, and nights pay above days. The chart above shows live weekly pay by city so you can see the spread yourself.
    How different are Tennessee's regions for OR travelers?
    Genuinely different. The state runs west to east through Memphis, Nashville, Chattanooga, Knoxville, and the Tri-Cities, and each metro's got its own systems, its own referral patterns, and its own housing picture. Jackson and the smaller markets add regional roles between them. Most travelers pick one grand division and search there instead of chasing postings across a six-hour drive.