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Medical Surgical Travel Nursing Jobs in Carlsbad, NM for RNs

Find Top RN Medical Surgical Travel Nursing Jobs in Carlsbad, New Mexico

AMN Healthcare can help you find the top MS travel nurse jobs in and around Carlsbad, New Mexico. We currently offer 6 of the best available nurse travel jobs in the Carlsbad area. We have new jobs updating daily, so be sure to Apply Now so our specialists can make sure you get first crack. We make it easy for you to compare Carlsbad’s MS nursing jobs by allowing you to filter based on salary, shift type, location or duration to find the right job for you.

As of May 1, 2025, the average Medical Surgical travel nurse working in Carlsbad and surrounding areas earned about $1,630 weekly. Today you can find MS jobs with a salary range between $1,389 to $1,816 per week.

If you have a specific start date in mind, we have a variety of options for MS travel jobs in Carlsbad. The earliest start date in Carlsbad is Jun 30, 2025 for a Registered Nurse – Medical Surgical role at $1,816 per week. The latest start date for an MS job in Carlsbad is Jul 7, 2025 for a Registered Nurse – Medical Surgical role at $1,709 per week. You can also find other possibilities by sorting on “start date” in the list below.

There are a variety of contract lengths available for a(n) Medical Surgical travel nurse job in Carlsbad including 12 weeks and 13 weeks.

Carlsbad is a great location for MS travel nurses to come live, work and play! And what is a travel nurse looking for if not a great work/life balance in a fun city? Search for jobs below or apply now and our AMN Healthcare team will help get you started!

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Search Top Paying Medical Surgical Jobs in or near Carlsbad

We have 6 Medical Surgical jobs in Carlsbad, NM and 16 Medical Surgical travel jobs in New Mexico, and 472 total Nationwide. If you’re not finding what you’re looking for immediately, sign up for the AMN Passport App today and we’ll connect you directly with a recruiter.

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Registered Nurse – Medical Surgical
  • Carlsbad, New Mexico – 88220
  • 12 N,
  • July 7, 2025
  • 13
$1,389 to $1,816
Weekly Pay*
This position presents an opportunity to join an elite team of passionate physicians and nurses within the Medical Surgical (MS) unit. MS RN’s can expect to enhance their professional experience while providing top notch patient care to those most needing it. – 115 bed Level 3 Trauma center located in Southwestern NM Patient Ratio: 1:6 EMR: MedHost Scrub Color: Any
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Registered Nurse – Medical Surgical
  • Carlsbad, New Mexico – 88220
  • 12 N,
  • July 7, 2025
  • 13
$1,389 to $1,816
Weekly Pay*
This position presents an opportunity to join an elite team of passionate physicians and nurses within the Medical Surgical (MS) unit. MS RN’s can expect to enhance their professional experience while providing top notch patient care to those most needing it. – 115 bed Level 3 Trauma center located in Southwestern NM Patient Ratio: 1:6 EMR: MedHost Scrub Color: Any
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Registered Nurse – Medical Surgical
  • Carlsbad, New Mexico – 88220
  • 12 N,
  • June 30, 2025
  • 13
$1,389 to $1,816
Weekly Pay*
This position presents an opportunity to join an elite team of passionate physicians and nurses within the Medical Surgical (MS) unit. MS RN’s can expect to enhance their professional experience while providing top notch patient care to those most needing it. – 115 bed Level 3 Trauma center located in Southwestern NM Patient Ratio: 1:6 EMR: MedHost Scrub Color: Any
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Registered Nurse – Medical Surgical
  • Carlsbad, New Mexico – 88220
  • 12 D,
  • July 7, 2025
  • 13
$1,551 to $1,709
Weekly Pay*
This position presents an opportunity to join an elite team of passionate physicians and nurses within the Medical Surgical (MS) unit. MS RN’s can expect to enhance their professional experience while providing top notch patient care to those most needing it. – 115 bed Level 3 Trauma center located in Southwestern NM Patient Ratio: 1:6 EMR: MedHost Scrub Color: Any
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Registered Nurse – Medical Surgical
  • Carlsbad, New Mexico – 88220
  • 12 D,
  • July 7, 2025
  • 13
$1,551 to $1,709
Weekly Pay*
This position presents an opportunity to join an elite team of passionate physicians and nurses within the Medical Surgical (MS) unit. MS RN’s can expect to enhance their professional experience while providing top notch patient care to those most needing it. – 115 bed Level 3 Trauma center located in Southwestern NM Patient Ratio: 1:6 EMR: MedHost Scrub Color: Any
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Registered Nurse – Medical Surgical
  • Carlsbad, New Mexico – 88220
  • 12 D,
  • June 30, 2025
$1,551 to $1,709
Weekly Pay*
This position presents an opportunity to join an elite team of passionate physicians and nurses within the Medical Surgical (MS) unit. This unit sees a wide variety of conditions including endocrine, wound care, neurology and gerontology as well as patients undergoing basic recovery care. Your expertise will be utilized for high level care within the traditional Medical Surgical unit setting. MS RN’s can expect to enhance their professional experience while providing top notch patient care to those most needing it.
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Registered Nurse – Medical Surgical
  • Roswell, New Mexico – 88201
    Distance from Carlsbad: 69 miles
  • 12 D,
  • July 7, 2025
  • 13
$1,566 to $2,048
Weekly Pay*
This position presents an opportunity to join an elite team of passionate physicians and nurses within the Medical Surgical (MS) unit. MS RN’s can expect to enhance their professional experience while providing top notch patient care to those most needing it. – 160 bed community hospital – Southeastern NM, about 3 hrs each from Ablq NM and Lubbock TX
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Registered Nurse – Medical Surgical
  • Portales, New Mexico – 88130
    Distance from Carlsbad: 132 miles
  • 12 N,
  • July 3, 2025
  • 13
$1,720 to $1,896
Weekly Pay*
This position presents an opportunity to join an elite team of passionate physicians and nurses within the Medical Surgical (MS) unit. This unit sees a wide variety of conditions including endocrine, wound care, neurology and gerontology as well as patients undergoing basic recovery care. Your expertise will be utilized for high level care within the traditional Medical Surgical unit setting. MS RN’s can expect to enhance their professional experience while providing top notch patient care to those most needing it.
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Registered Nurse – Medical Surgical
  • Las Cruces, New Mexico – 88011
    Distance from Carlsbad: 149 miles
  • 12 N,
  • July 7, 2025
  • 13
$1,867 to $2,057
Weekly Pay*
This position presents an opportunity to join an elite team of passionate physicians and nurses within the Medical Surgical (MS) unit. This unit sees a wide variety of conditions including endocrine, wound care, neurology and gerontology as well as patients undergoing basic recovery care. Your expertise will be utilized for high level care within the traditional Medical Surgical unit setting. MS RN’s can expect to enhance their professional experience while providing top notch patient care to those most needing it.
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Registered Nurse – Medical Surgical
  • Las Cruces, New Mexico – 88011
    Distance from Carlsbad: 149 miles
  • 12 N,
  • July 7, 2025
  • 13
$1,549 to $1,707
Weekly Pay*
This position presents an opportunity to join an elite team of passionate physicians and nurses within the Medical Surgical (MS) unit. This unit sees a wide variety of conditions including endocrine, wound care, neurology and gerontology as well as patients undergoing basic recovery care. Your expertise will be utilized for high level care within the traditional Medical Surgical unit setting. MS RN’s can expect to enhance their professional experience while providing top notch patient care to those most needing it.
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Registered Nurse – Medical Surgical
  • Las Cruces, New Mexico – 88011
    Distance from Carlsbad: 149 miles
  • 12 N,
  • July 14, 2025
  • 13
$1,549 to $1,707
Weekly Pay*
This position presents an opportunity to join an elite team of passionate physicians and nurses within the Medical Surgical (MS) unit. This unit sees a wide variety of conditions including endocrine, wound care, neurology and gerontology as well as patients undergoing basic recovery care. Your expertise will be utilized for high level care within the traditional Medical Surgical unit setting. MS RN’s can expect to enhance their professional experience while providing top notch patient care to those most needing it.
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Registered Nurse – Medical Surgical
  • Las Cruces, New Mexico – 88011
    Distance from Carlsbad: 149 miles
  • 12 N,
  • June 30, 2025
  • 13
$1,549 to $1,707
Weekly Pay*
This position presents an opportunity to join an elite team of passionate physicians and nurses within the Medical Surgical (MS) unit. This unit sees a wide variety of conditions including endocrine, wound care, neurology and gerontology as well as patients undergoing basic recovery care. Your expertise will be utilized for high level care within the traditional Medical Surgical unit setting. MS RN’s can expect to enhance their professional experience while providing top notch patient care to those most needing it.
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Registered Nurse – Medical Surgical
  • Clovis, New Mexico – 88101
    Distance from Carlsbad: 149 miles
  • 12 N,
  • July 7, 2025
  • 12
$1,773 to $1,954
Weekly Pay*
This position presents an opportunity to join an elite team of passionate physicians and nurses within the Medical Surgical (MS) unit. This unit sees a wide variety of conditions including endocrine, wound care, neurology and gerontology as well as patients undergoing basic recovery care. Your expertise will be utilized for high level care within the traditional Medical Surgical unit setting. MS RN’s can expect to enhance their professional experience while providing top notch patient care to those most needing it.
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Registered Nurse – Medical Surgical
  • Albuquerque, New Mexico – 87106
    Distance from Carlsbad: 231 miles
  • 12 D,
  • June 29, 2025
  • 13
$1,766 to $1,946
Weekly Pay*
This position presents an opportunity to join an elite team of passionate physicians and nurses within the Medical Surgical (MS) unit. This unit sees a wide variety of conditions including endocrine, wound care, neurology and gerontology as well as patients undergoing basic recovery care. Your expertise will be utilized for high level care within the traditional Medical Surgical unit setting. MS RN’s can expect to enhance their professional experience while providing top notch patient care to those most needing it.
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Registered Nurse – Medical Surgical
  • Santa Fe, New Mexico – 87505
    Distance from Carlsbad: 246 miles
  • 12 N,
  • June 30, 2025
  • 13
$1,562 to $1,721
Weekly Pay*
This position presents an opportunity to join an elite team of passionate physicians and nurses within the Medical Surgical (MS) unit. This unit sees a wide variety of conditions including endocrine, wound care, neurology and gerontology as well as patients undergoing basic recovery care. Your expertise will be utilized for high level care within the traditional Medical Surgical unit setting. MS RN’s can expect to enhance their professional experience while providing top notch patient care to those most needing it.
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Registered Nurse – Medical Surgical
  • Lawton, Oklahoma – 73505
    Distance from Carlsbad: 369 miles
  • 12 D,
  • June 23, 2025
  • 13
$1,703 to $1,877
Weekly Pay*
Today, Comanche County Memorial Hospital is a 265-bed regional referral center and integrated delivery system providing medical services in virtually every specialty. The success of this progressive organization has been made possible through the courage, foresight, and spirit of human kindness of the citizens of Comanche County and is a direct result of the vision and leadership of people too numerous to name. As we reflect upon over 60 years of community service, it is rewarding to know that we are still living the charitable mission for which we were founded half a century ago – to provide access to comprehensive and quality healthcare for all. As we look to the future, we are reminded that our purpose has and will always be to enhance the quality and quantity of life of those we serve in Southwest Oklahoma.
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Registered Nurse – Medical Surgical
  • Lawton, Oklahoma – 73505
    Distance from Carlsbad: 369 miles
  • 12 D,
  • June 16, 2025
  • 13
$1,703 to $1,877
Weekly Pay*
This position presents an opportunity to join an elite team of passionate physicians and nurses within the Medical Surgical (MS) unit. This unit sees a wide variety of conditions including endocrine, wound care, neurology and gerontology as well as patients undergoing basic recovery care. Your expertise will be utilized for high level care within the traditional Medical Surgical unit setting. MS RN’s can expect to enhance their professional experience while providing top notch patient care to those most needing it.
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Registered Nurse – Medical Surgical
  • Lawton, Oklahoma – 73505
    Distance from Carlsbad: 369 miles
  • 12 N,
  • July 3, 2025
  • 13
$1,703 to $1,877
Weekly Pay*
This position presents an opportunity to join an elite team of passionate physicians and nurses within the Medical Surgical (MS) unit. This unit sees a wide variety of conditions including endocrine, wound care, neurology and gerontology as well as patients undergoing basic recovery care. Your expertise will be utilized for high level care within the traditional Medical Surgical unit setting. MS RN’s can expect to enhance their professional experience while providing top notch patient care to those most needing it.
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Registered Nurse – Medical Surgical
  • Lawton, Oklahoma – 73505
    Distance from Carlsbad: 369 miles
  • 12 N,
  • July 7, 2025
  • 13
$1,650 to $1,818
Weekly Pay*
This position presents an opportunity to join an elite team of passionate physicians and nurses within the Medical Surgical (MS) unit. This unit sees a wide variety of conditions including endocrine, wound care, neurology and gerontology as well as patients undergoing basic recovery care. Your expertise will be utilized for high level care within the traditional Medical Surgical unit setting. MS RN’s can expect to enhance their professional experience while providing top notch patient care to those most needing it.
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Registered Nurse – Medical Surgical
  • Lawton, Oklahoma – 73505
    Distance from Carlsbad: 369 miles
  • 12 D,
  • July 7, 2025
  • 13
$1,650 to $1,818
Weekly Pay*
This position presents an opportunity to join an elite team of passionate physicians and nurses within the Medical Surgical (MS) unit. This unit sees a wide variety of conditions including endocrine, wound care, neurology and gerontology as well as patients undergoing basic recovery care. Your expertise will be utilized for high level care within the traditional Medical Surgical unit setting. MS RN’s can expect to enhance their professional experience while providing top notch patient care to those most needing it.
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Registered Nurse – Medical Surgical
  • Farmington, New Mexico – 87401
    Distance from Carlsbad: 374 miles
  • 12 D,
  • June 30, 2025
  • 13
$1,668 to $1,838
Weekly Pay*
This outstanding unit is looking for the right individual to join their team of compassionate and driven health care professionals. Join this highly motivated team of caregivers and enjoy a challenging and welcoming environment based on optimal patient care.
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Registered Nurse – Medical Surgical
  • Decatur, Texas – 76234
    Distance from Carlsbad: 390 miles
  • 12 N,
  • July 7, 2025
  • 13
$1,322 to $1,456
Weekly Pay*
150 bed community hospital located 40 miles northwest of Fort Worth.
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Registered Nurse – Medical Surgical
  • San Antonio, Texas – 78240
    Distance from Carlsbad: 398 miles
  • 12 D,
  • June 29, 2025
  • 7
$1,689 to $1,862
Weekly Pay*
At Encompass Health Rehabilitation Hospital of San Antonio, we are committed to helping you get back to what matters most. Located in San Antonio, we are a leading provider of inpatient rehabilitation for stroke, brain injury, hip fracture and other complex neurological and orthopedic conditions. When you choose Encompass Health Rehabilitation Hospital of San Antonio for your rehabilitation, you receive compassionate care from an expert team of physical, occupational and speech therapists; physicians; nurses; dietitians; pharmacists; and case managers who work together to create a plan to help you meet your unique goals.
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Registered Nurse – Medical Surgical
  • San Antonio, Texas – 78229
    Distance from Carlsbad: 398 miles
  • 12 N,
  • June 16, 2025
  • 13
$1,460 to $1,609
Weekly Pay*
This position presents an opportunity to join an elite team of passionate physicians and nurses within the Medical Surgical (MS) unit.
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Statistics on MS RN Jobs in Carlsbad, New Mexico

Here are some helpful statistics about MS traveling nurse jobs in & near Carlsbad. The data is based on the last three complete months of MS job postings in the Carlsbad and nearby areas. It is updated regularly, so you can find the most recent Medical Surgical job salary trends, the types of shifts, and contract durations most commonly available in Carlsbad and more. Find out more about travel nursing salaries.

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FAQs About Travel MS Nursing Jobs for RNs in Carlsbad, NM

What are the top paying Medical Surgical jobs currently available in or near Carlsbad?

  • Registered Nurse – MS with a per week salary of $2,057, a 13 weeks duration, for a 12 N in Las Cruces (149 miles away)
  • Registered Nurse – MS with a per week salary of $2,048, a 13 weeks duration, for a 12 D in Roswell (69.4 miles away)
  • Registered Nurse – MS with a per week salary of $1,954, a 12 weeks duration, for a 12 N in Clovis (149.3 miles away)

What types of shifts are most common for MS travel jobs in Carlsbad?

Based on the last 6 months of travel nurse jobs data, 12 Hour Night shifts were the most common in Carlsbad and surrounding areas.

How many Medical Surgical travel nursing jobs are available in Carlsbad?

There are currently 6 Medical Surgical travel nursing jobs available in Carlsbad. We also get new nursing specialties jobs daily, so be sure to apply now and a recruiter will help you find the perfect fit as jobs become available.

How much does a day shift Medical Surgical nurse make on average in Carlsbad and nearby cities?

A: A 12 Hour Day shift Medical Surgical nurse in Carlsbad can make an average of $1,665 per week based on recent job availability.

How much does a night shift Medical Surgical nurse make on average in Carlsbad and nearby cities?

A: A 12 Hour Night shift Medical Surgical nurse in Carlsbad can make an average of $1,660 per week based on recent job availability data.

How much does an Medical Surgical travel nurse make on average in Carlsbad?

A Medical Surgical nurse in Carlsbad can make an average of $1,662 per week.

What is the most common contract for Medical Surgical travel jobs in Carlsbad?

Based on recent data, the most common duration for a Medical Surgical job in Carlsbad is 13 weeks.

Locating Medical Surgical Travel Nursing Jobs in Carlsbad

Other popular cities near Carlsbad’s MS job opportunities are Artesia (30.9 miles), Hagerman (48.3 miles) and Lovington (62.7 miles). These are near to zip codes: 88210 (30.9 miles).

Carlsbad Hospitals With MS Departments

There are 1 hospitals & healthcare facilities that have MS nurses in Carlsbad. Sometimes it is useful to see what types of shifts, contract durations, and travel nurse housing in nearby neighborhoods each facility might offer in order to find the right opportunity for your next traveling MS nurse position in or nearby Carlsbad.

Artesia General Hospital
Shifts
8 D, 12 D, 12 E, and 12 N
Job Durations
13 wks
Departments
Emergency Room RN, Medical Surgical Registered Nurse, Operating Room RN, Operating Room Surgical Technology, Operation Room Nursing Surgical Technology, and Post Anesthesia Care Unit
Address
702 North 13th Street
Artesia, NM 88210
* Estimate of payments is intended for informational purposes and includes hourly wages, as well as reimbursements for meal & incidental expenses and housing expenses incurred on behalf of the Company. Please speak with a recruiter for additional details.