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Med Surg Travel Nurse Jobs in Virginia

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    Choose the Virginia service line, not the label

    The first decision in Med Surg Travel Nurse Jobs in Virginia is the service line behind the posting, not the city name. Northern Virginia, Richmond, Hampton Roads, the Shenandoah Valley, and southwest communities can offer general medical floors, gastrointestinal care, oncology, postoperative services, telemetry, observation, and blended units. Compare the diagnoses and procedures that shape the daily census, then ask how monitoring, escalation, and transfers are handled. Clarify where travelers float, which competencies are screened, how orientation covers the named service line, and what charge, hospitalist, respiratory, and pharmacy support remains overnight. A traveler with broad Med Surg experience may still need a focused match when the floor centers on a specific patient population or monitored workflow.

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    Compare current Virginia service-line roles

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    Live listings help review unit focus, shift, monitoring, float expectations, and experience requirements.

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

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    Open Med Surg jobs
    6 days
    Median time active
    +2
    Added last 7 days
    NLC
    Virginia 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)
    77,490
    Virginia RNs employed statewide, employment count not license count (BLS OEWS, May 2025)
    8,020
    Projected Virginia 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 · Virginia

    Weekly pay across Virginia assignment markets

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    Compare live weekly pay with service line, facility, shift, monitoring scope, float expectations, and urgency.

    Highest weekly pay · Med Surg
    Lynchburg
    $2,582
    Danville
    $1,929
    Fishersville
    $1,671

    Read the clinical focus behind each city result so similar titles do not conceal different competencies.

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

    Virginia ward infection-prevention measures

    Virginia's state reporting offers two direct quality measures for adult and pediatric wards. The 2024 VDH chart reports a 0.69 central-line-associated bloodstream infection SIR for adult and pediatric wards and a 0.65 catheter-associated urinary tract infection SIR for the same ward category. VDH defines these locations as adult and pediatric medical, surgical, and medical/surgical wards. Both values compare observed infections with risk-adjusted predicted counts across reporting hospitals. They are not staffing ratios, unit scores, or evidence of current travel demand. Use them to ask how a hospital handles line and catheter indications, maintenance responsibilities, documentation, device rounds, escalation, and orientation to local protocols. Also confirm whether the offered floor is general Med Surg, telemetry, oncology, gastrointestinal, or another specialty service, because statewide ward data cannot define the patient mix or competencies of an individual assignment.

    VDH covers adult and pediatric medical, surgical, and medical/surgical wards; SIRs are not staffing ratios.
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    Virginia Med Surg Travel Jobs: Cost, Certs, Cities

    Is there a licensing cost for me to work Med Surg in Virginia?
    Not if your multistate license and your compact-state residence are both in order; Virginia participates and charges you nothing because there's nothing to process. Costs appear only on the endorsement path, where single-state nurses and those living outside the compact pay Virginia's fee and wait on the board. One check in Nursys tells you which side of that line you're on.
    What do Virginia Med Surg units look for in travelers?
    BLS is always required, and some Virginia units also require ACLS. Underneath the credentials they want one to two years of recent med-surg work and a clear account of your typical patient load. Northern Virginia's bigger systems can be pickier; regional hospitals hire more on reliability. Facilities own the final requirements.
    Does Med Surg pay track region in Virginia?
    Closely, because cost of living does real work here. Northern Virginia stipends answer to Washington-area prices, Richmond and Hampton Roads run their own, and the Shenandoah Valley and southwest post premiums when floors need to fill. Nights add to the base in all of them. The same weekly number lives very differently in Arlington versus Roanoke, so read the live chart above next to housing. The rest of an offer varies by facility and contract; your recruiter will be able to answer those details.
    Which Virginia regions have the most Med Surg demand?
    Northern Virginia, Richmond, and Hampton Roads carry the bulk between them, and each one's a distinct market with multiple systems. The Shenandoah Valley and the southwest add regional hospitals that hire persistently. These regions sit hours apart with different housing math, so pick your region first; the state label tells you almost nothing about the contract.