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Medical Surgical Travel Nursing Jobs in Wilkes-Barre, PA for RNs

Find Top RN Medical Surgical Travel Nursing Jobs in Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania

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Search Top Paying Medical Surgical Jobs in or near Wilkes-Barre

We have 8 Medical Surgical travel jobs in Pennsylvania, and 489 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
  • Port Murray, New Jersey – 07865
    Distance from Wilkes-Barre: 60 miles
  • 8 D, 10 D, 12 D, 8 E, 10 E, 12 E, 8 N, 10 N, 12 N,
  • June 27, 2025
  • 11
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The Nurse/Health Care Manager furthers the mission of YMCA Camp Bernie by overseeing the health and wellness of all camp participants. The Nurse/Health Care Manager ensures and provides for adequate physical conditions for all. Essential Job Functions: 1: Oversee the management and operations of the Wellness Center. a. Design and implement a system for health screening all arriving and departing campers and staff, including out of camp trips. b. Conduct inventory of supplies and place orders when necessary (in consult with Summer Camp Coordinator and Executive Director), ensuring timely arrival of supplies. c. Coordinate coverage of the health center and post hours for daily medications and health call. -Day K-10th grade; Overnight 2nd grade-10th grade -Dates: Training starts on June 6th, with the bulk of the training on June 9th. They could move in on the 7th or 8th. Last day of day camp is Aug 22nd, Overnight camp ends on Aug 15th. -Day Camp is 11 weeks; Overnight Camp 10 weeks and they overlap a bit -Accommodations- If the Camp RN is not local, there will be a room available in the wellness ctr ( BR, Shower, Kitchenet, etc- FREE) -Food-3 meals a day covered. -Coverage is 24/7, needs 1 RN for entire duration
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Registered Nurse – Medical Surgical
  • Ottsville, Pennsylvania – 18942
    Distance from Wilkes-Barre: 65 miles
  • 12 D,
  • June 25, 2025
  • 8
Contact for Details
Camp Size: 100 campers Ages 8-16, both boys and girls One day off per week Shared free housing, on campus; private bedroom, shared bathroom, living room and kitchenette. No pets or children allowed Free meals available at the camp cafeteria.
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Registered Nurse – Medical Surgical
  • Mechanicsburg, Pennsylvania – 17055
    Distance from Wilkes-Barre: 93 miles
  • 12 N,
  • June 30, 2025
  • 12
$1,579 to $1,740
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
  • Mechanicsburg, Pennsylvania – 17055
    Distance from Wilkes-Barre: 93 miles
  • 12 E,
  • July 6, 2025
  • 8
$1,579 to $1,740
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
  • Camden, New Jersey – 08103
    Distance from Wilkes-Barre: 100 miles
  • 12 N,
  • June 27, 2025
  • 13
$2,065 to $2,276
Weekly Pay*
Registered Nurses (RNs) deliver care to inmate patients utilizing the nursing assessment protocols in assessment, planning, intervention, implementation, and evaluation, in accordance with established philosophy. RNs collaborate with other professional disciplines to ensure effective patient care delivery and achievement of desired patient outcomes. RNs effectively interact with patients, while maintaining the standard of professional nursing. Corrections Nurses provide care to inmate patients to promote & improve their overall health utilizing the nursing process in triage, professional training and various resources in accordance with regulatory agencies and established guidelines. The inmate patient population generally has not had consistent access to healthcare prior to their incarceration. This provides an opportunity for nurses to see and care for an interesting variety of health concerns from minor ailments to major and atypical conditions.
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Registered Nurse – Medical Surgical
  • New York, New York – 10065
    Distance from Wilkes-Barre: 104 miles
  • 12 E,
  • July 1, 2025
  • 13
$1,838 to $2,026
Weekly Pay*
he David H. Koch Center for Cancer Care at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center is a comprehensive outpatient facility located on Manhattan’s Upper East Side. This 26-story, state-of-the-art facility offers nearly every aspect of cancer care across many specialties, so most patients can get their treatments in one place.
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Registered Nurse – Medical Surgical
  • New York, New York – 10021
    Distance from Wilkes-Barre: 104 miles
  • 12 D,
  • July 1, 2025
  • 13
$1,838 to $2,026
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
  • Eatontown, New Jersey – 07724
    Distance from Wilkes-Barre: 116 miles
  • 12 D,
  • June 29, 2025
  • 10
$1,638 to $1,805
Weekly Pay*
This outstanding unit is looking for the right RN 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
  • Utica, New York – 13502
    Distance from Wilkes-Barre: 132 miles
  • 12 D,
  • July 7, 2025
  • 13
$1,987 to $2,190
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
  • Utica, New York – 13502
    Distance from Wilkes-Barre: 132 miles
  • 12 N,
  • July 7, 2025
  • 13
$1,987 to $2,190
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
  • Mays Landing, New Jersey – 08330
    Distance from Wilkes-Barre: 138 miles
  • 12 N,
  • June 27, 2025
  • 13
$2,073 to $2,285
Weekly Pay*
Registered Nurses (RNs) deliver care to inmate patients utilizing the nursing assessment protocols in assessment, planning, intervention, implementation, and evaluation, in accordance with established philosophy. RNs collaborate with other professional disciplines to ensure effective patient care delivery and achievement of desired patient outcomes. RNs effectively interact with patients, while maintaining the standard of professional nursing. Corrections Nurses provide care to inmate patients to promote & improve their overall health utilizing the nursing process in triage, professional training and various resources in accordance with regulatory agencies and established guidelines. The inmate patient population generally has not had consistent access to healthcare prior to their incarceration. This provides an opportunity for nurses to see and care for an interesting variety of health concerns from minor ailments to major and atypical conditions.
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Registered Nurse – Medical Surgical
  • Baltimore, Maryland – 21224
    Distance from Wilkes-Barre: 140 miles
  • 12 N,
  • June 30, 2025
  • 13
$1,706 to $1,880
Weekly Pay*
Med/Surg RN needed for Burns unit at Level 2 Trauma center and Magnet hospital. RNs in Maryland recently voted JHHS Bayview the #2 hospital to work for in the state
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Registered Nurse – Medical Surgical
  • Baltimore, Maryland – 21224
    Distance from Wilkes-Barre: 140 miles
  • 12 D, 12 N,
  • June 30, 2025
  • 13
$1,706 to $1,880
Weekly Pay*
RN needed for Neurology unit at Level 2 Trauma center and Magnet hospital RNs across Maryland recently voted JHHS Bayview the #2 hospital to work for in the state
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Registered Nurse – Medical Surgical
  • Baltimore, Maryland – 21224
    Distance from Wilkes-Barre: 140 miles
  • 12 N,
  • June 16, 2025
  • 13
$1,600 to $1,763
Weekly Pay*
MedSurg RN needed for Level 2 Trauma center and Magnet hospital. RNs across Maryland recently voted JHHS Bayview the #2 hospital to work for in the state
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Registered Nurse – Medical Surgical
  • Baltimore, Maryland – 21224
    Distance from Wilkes-Barre: 140 miles
  • 12 D, 12 N,
  • June 16, 2025
  • 13
$1,600 to $1,763
Weekly Pay*
MedSurg RN needed for Level 2 Trauma center and Magnet hospital. RNs across Maryland recently voted JHHS Bayview the #2 hospital to work for in the state
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Registered Nurse – Medical Surgical
  • Baltimore, Maryland – 21224
    Distance from Wilkes-Barre: 140 miles
  • 12 D, 12 N,
  • June 30, 2025
  • 13
$1,600 to $1,763
Weekly Pay*
MedSurg RN needed for Level 2 Trauma center and Magnet hospital RNs across Maryland recently voted JHHS Bayview the #2 hospital to work for in the state
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Registered Nurse – Medical Surgical
  • Baltimore, Maryland – 21224
    Distance from Wilkes-Barre: 140 miles
  • 12 D,
  • June 23, 2025
  • 13
$1,600 to $1,763
Weekly Pay*
Ortho experienced RN needed for Level 2 Trauma center and Magnet hospital RNs across Maryland recently voted JHHS Bayview the #2 hospital to work for in the state
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Registered Nurse – Medical Surgical
  • Altoona, Pennsylvania – 16601
    Distance from Wilkes-Barre: 141 miles
  • 12 N,
  • June 30, 2025
  • 13
$1,844 to $2,032
Weekly Pay*
UPMC Altoona is a nonprofit community health care provider with a 380-bed acute-care teaching hospital, several state-of-the-art outpatient centers, a surgery center, and a large local network of health care providers covering over 20 different specialties, with locations across six Pennsylvania counties. Locals within 75 miles are allowed at lower rates Altoona has the highest bill rate in UPMC travelers
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Registered Nurse – Medical Surgical
  • Altoona, Pennsylvania – 16601
    Distance from Wilkes-Barre: 141 miles
  • 12 N,
  • July 7, 2025
  • 13
$1,844 to $2,032
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. Locals within 75 miles are allowed at lower rates Altoona has the highest bill rate in UPMC traveler
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Registered Nurse – Medical Surgical
  • Albany, New York – 12208
    Distance from Wilkes-Barre: 146 miles
  • 12 D,
  • July 14, 2025
  • 13
$2,071 to $2,283
Weekly Pay*
Ability and willingness to float to 22 different medical and surgical units. Unit assignments will be made on a shift to shift basis to best meet the needs of each of these units. Patient Population: A diverse population of all medical and surgical specialties
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Registered Nurse – Medical Surgical
  • Albany, New York – 12208
    Distance from Wilkes-Barre: 146 miles
  • 12 D,
  • July 14, 2025
  • 13
$2,001 to $2,205
Weekly Pay*
Infectious Disease and Secure Unit Number of Beds: 25 beds on C4, 10 beds on C3W The Infectious Disease Medical Unit is an interdisciplinary specialty unit. Patients may be acutely, chronically, or terminally ill. It is a medical surgical unit with a primary focus on infectious disease (ID). Patients that are admitted to the ID service or patients requiring any type of isolation that cannot be maintained on other units as well as any adult general medical patient who does not require a specialty unit may be admitted to C4. C4 is equipped with negative airflow making them suitable for patients with communicable diseases. The Secure Unit is an interdisciplinary unit. Patients may be acutely, chronically, or terminally ill and are guarded on the unit on a 24×7 basis by the NYS Department of Corrections and Community and Supervision and/or Albany County law enforcement. Albany County male incarcerated individuals may also be housed on C3W if space is available. C3W is equipped with negative airflow making them suitable for patients with communicable diseases. Medical patients include oncology, HIV, renal, and pulmonary. Surgery patients include ortho, plastics, vascular, and cardiac. Any DOCCS incarcerated individual that is not in the ICU or a step-down unit is housed on C3W.
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Registered Nurse – Medical Surgical
  • Albany, New York – 12208
    Distance from Wilkes-Barre: 146 miles
  • 12 D,
  • July 7, 2025
  • 13
$2,001 to $2,205
Weekly Pay*
Unit Name: M2 Post surgical orthopedics and spine Number of Beds: 16 private rooms Patient Population: These are patients that have recently undergone spine surgery, hip fractures, wound infections, multiple trauma, new spinal cord injuries, and medicine patients • Special skills- Wound vac changes, Cortrak management, IV insertion, phlebotomy, Vocera use, tele, traction, ostomy care Procedures performed on unit: Assist with Central Lines, Wound Vac changes, NG, Cortrak, catheter, indwelling catheters
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Registered Nurse – Medical Surgical
  • Albany, New York – 12208
    Distance from Wilkes-Barre: 146 miles
  • 12 D,
  • June 23, 2025
  • 13
$2,001 to $2,205
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
  • Albany, New York – 12208
    Distance from Wilkes-Barre: 146 miles
  • 12 D,
  • July 7, 2025
  • 13
$2,001 to $2,205
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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Statistics on MS RN Jobs in Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania

Here are some helpful statistics about MS traveling nurse jobs in & near Wilkes-Barre. The data is based on the last three complete months of MS job postings in the Wilkes-Barre 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 Wilkes-Barre and more. Find out more about travel nursing salaries.

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FAQs About Travel MS Nursing Jobs for RNs in Wilkes-Barre, PA

What types of shifts are most common for MS travel jobs in Wilkes-Barre?

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

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

A: A 12 Hour Day shift Medical Surgical nurse in Wilkes-Barre can make an average of $1,682 per week based on recent job availability.

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

A: A 12 Hour Night shift Medical Surgical nurse in Wilkes-Barre can make an average of $1,743 per week based on recent job availability data.

What is the most common contract for Medical Surgical travel jobs in Wilkes-Barre?

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

Locating Medical Surgical Travel Nursing Jobs in Wilkes-Barre

Other popular cities near Wilkes-Barre’s MS job opportunities are Kingston (1.4 miles), Hanover (6.7 miles) and Pittston (7.3 miles). These are near to zip codes: 18501 (15.9 miles), 17701 (58.2 miles) and 19607 (62.9 miles).

Wilkes-Barre Hospitals With MS Departments

There are 1 hospitals & healthcare facilities that have MS nurses in Wilkes-Barre. 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 Wilkes-Barre.

Mercy Hospital – Scranton
Shifts
8 D, 8 E, 10 D, and 12 N
Job Durations
13 wks
Departments
Cardiovascular Operating Room Registered Nurse, Cardiovascular Operating Room Surgical Technologist, Cardiovascular Operating Room Surgical Technology, Emergency Room RN, Medical Surgical Registered Nurse, Operating Room RN, Operating Room Surgical Technology, Operation Room Nursing Surgical Technology, Psychiatric, and Skilled LPN/LVN
Address
746 Jefferson Avenue
Scranton, PA 18501
Nearby Neighborhoods
Morgan Manor (18508)
* 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.