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Medical Surgical Travel Nursing Jobs in Houston for RNs

Find Top RN Medical Surgical Travel Nursing Jobs in Houston, Texas

AMN Healthcare can help you find the top MS travel nurse jobs in and around Houston, Texas. 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 Houston’s MS nursing jobs by allowing you to filter based on salary, shift type, location or duration to find the right job for you.

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travel Exclusive Compact State
Registered Nurse – Medical Surgical
  • Nacogdoches, Texas – 75965
    Distance from Houston: 134 miles
  • 12 N,
  • February 3, 2025
  • 13
$1,569 to $1,729
Weekly Pay*
155 Total Beds Level IV trauma Center Close to Louisiana, Dallas, and Austin Near Splash Kingdom, Timber Falls, and Zip Nac! Common Diagnosis/Treatment: CHF, Pneumonia, Sepsis, Cardiac, ESRD, post op bariatrics, ortho, ENT, general surg # of Beds: 2nd floor 38; 3rd floor 32 Nurse Patient Ratio: 5:1 days 6:1 nights Charting: Cerner Scrub Color: Navy blue Areas of Float Support: floats from ICU, Womens Center Special Procedures: 0
travel Compact State
Registered Nurse – Medical Surgical
  • Austin, Texas – 78705
    Distance from Houston: 147 miles
  • 12 N,
  • January 27, 2025
  • 13
$1,462 to $1,611
Weekly Pay*
MedSurg (MS) RN needed for Neuro focused unit at Level 4 Trauma center. Campus includes a 350-bed acute care hospital and a 64- bed rehabilitation hospital. Named among the nation’s 100 Top Hospitals by Truven Health Analytics from 2010 to 2016, as well as Healthgrades’ 2016 America’s 100 Best Hospitals Award for the second consecutive year. It’s home to the internationally renowned Texas Cardiac Arrhythmia Institute and St. David’s Neuroscience & Spine Institute. In 2016, the hospital earned a spot among Watson Health’s 50 Top Cardiovascular Hospitals.
travel Compact State
Registered Nurse – Medical Surgical
  • Austin, Texas – 78758
    Distance from Houston: 147 miles
  • 12 N,
  • February 3, 2025
  • 13
$1,462 to $1,611
Weekly Pay*
RN needed for 32 bed MedSurg unit with 1:5 staffing. 375 bed Level 2 Trauma center. The campus is home to the St. David’s Women’s Center of Texas, Texas Institute for Robotic Surgery, a Certified Stroke Center, and a Kidney Transplant Center. Enjoy legendary live music, burgeoning restaurant scene, unique culture, and a vibrant, welcoming community that you just have to experience for yourself to truly understand what makes Austin so Austin.
travel Compact State
Registered Nurse – Medical Surgical
  • Austin, Texas – 78758
    Distance from Houston: 147 miles
  • 12 N,
  • February 3, 2025
  • 13
$1,462 to $1,611
Weekly Pay*
MedSurg/Tele RN needed for 375 bed Level 2 Trauma center. The campus is home to the St. David’s Women’s Center of Texas, Texas Institute for Robotic Surgery, Certified Stroke Center and rehabilitation services, and a Kidney Transplant Center. Enjoy legendary live music, burgeoning restaurant scene, unique culture, and a vibrant, welcoming community that you just have to experience for yourself to truly understand what makes Austin so Austin.
travel Compact State
Registered Nurse – Medical Surgical
  • Austin, Texas – 78758
    Distance from Houston: 147 miles
  • 12 N,
  • February 3, 2025
  • 13
$1,462 to $1,611
Weekly Pay*
travel Compact State
Registered Nurse – Medical Surgical
  • Austin, Texas – 78704
    Distance from Houston: 147 miles
  • 12 D,
  • February 10, 2025
  • 13
$1,462 to $1,611
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.
travel Compact State
Registered Nurse – Medical Surgical
  • Austin, Texas – 78758
    Distance from Houston: 147 miles
  • 12 D,
  • February 3, 2025
  • 13
$1,462 to $1,611
Weekly Pay*
MedSurg/Tele RN needed for 375 bed Level 2 Trauma center. The campus is home to the St. David’s Women’s Center of Texas, Texas Institute for Robotic Surgery, Certified Stroke Center and rehabilitation services, and a Kidney Transplant Center. Enjoy legendary live music, burgeoning restaurant scene, unique culture, and a vibrant, welcoming community that you just have to experience for yourself to truly understand what makes Austin so Austin.
travel Compact State
Registered Nurse – Medical Surgical
  • Round Rock, Texas – 78681
    Distance from Houston: 148 miles
  • 12 D,
  • January 27, 2025
  • 13
$1,321 to $1,456
Weekly Pay*
40 bed surgical hospital specializing in orthopedic, neurological, bariatric, gynecological and urological surgery, among others. Located in North Austin, the facility includes 10 OR suites and a six-bed intensive care unit (ICU).
travel Compact State
Registered Nurse – Medical Surgical
  • San Antonio, Texas – 78258
    Distance from Houston: 190 miles
  • 12 N,
  • February 3, 2025
  • 13
$1,336 to $1,473
Weekly Pay*
travel Compact State
Registered Nurse – Medical Surgical
  • San Antonio, Texas – 78229
    Distance from Houston: 190 miles
  • 12 N,
  • February 3, 2025
  • 13
$1,336 to $1,473
Weekly Pay*
200+ bed full-service facility widely acclaimed for its outstanding kidney, liver and pancreas transplant programs. Home to the Texas Transplant Institute, the center made medical history by performing the world’s largest kidney donor exchange in a single center. Other specialty areas include emergency care, psychiatry, bariatric surgery, inpatient rehabilitation and the latest treatments for cancer and incontinence.
travel Compact State
Registered Nurse – Medical Surgical
  • San Antonio, Texas – 78258
    Distance from Houston: 190 miles
  • 12 N,
  • February 3, 2025
  • 13
$1,336 to $1,473
Weekly Pay*
MS/Tele RN needed for Oncology focused unit at 140 bed community hospital. Meditech charting
travel Compact State
Registered Nurse – Medical Surgical
  • San Antonio, Texas – 78212
    Distance from Houston: 190 miles
  • 12 N,
  • February 3, 2025
  • 13
$1,301 to $1,434
Weekly Pay*
– MedSurg RN needed for 380 bed Level 4 Trauma center
travel Compact State
Registered Nurse – Medical Surgical
  • San Antonio, Texas – 78233
    Distance from Houston: 190 miles
  • 12 N,
  • February 3, 2025
  • 13
$1,301 to $1,434
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.
travel Compact State
Registered Nurse – Medical Surgical
  • San Antonio, Texas – 78212
    Distance from Houston: 190 miles
  • 12 N,
  • February 10, 2025
  • 13
$1,301 to $1,434
Weekly Pay*
– MedSurg RN needed for 380 bed Level 4 Trauma center
travel Compact State
Registered Nurse – Medical Surgical
  • San Antonio, Texas – 78212
    Distance from Houston: 190 miles
  • 12 D,
  • February 10, 2025
  • 13
$1,301 to $1,434
Weekly Pay*
– MedSurg RN needed for 380 bed Level 4 Trauma center
travel Compact State
Registered Nurse – Medical Surgical
  • San Antonio, Texas – 78233
    Distance from Houston: 190 miles
  • 12 N,
  • February 3, 2025
  • 13
$1,301 to $1,434
Weekly Pay*
– MedSurg RNs needed for 116 bed Level 4 Trauma center using Meditech charting – Accredited chest pain center and recently received Joint Commission certification as a stroke center.
travel Compact State
Registered Nurse – Medical Surgical
  • Ennis, Texas – 75119
    Distance from Houston: 192 miles
  • 12 N,
  • February 17, 2025
  • 13
$1,639 to $1,806
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.
travel Compact State
Registered Nurse – Medical Surgical
  • Alexandria, Louisiana – 71301
    Distance from Houston: 204 miles
  • 12 N,
  • February 17, 2025
  • 13
$1,666 to $1,836
Weekly Pay*
The Intensive Care Unit Registered Nurse has the responsibility and accountability for planning, directing, implementing and evaluating the nursing plan of care provided by the nursing team. overall nursing care and functions in the ICU. Per the Department’s Scope of Practice, this position requires providing services to ICU patients of all ages in a manner that demonstrates an understanding of the functional/developmental age of the individuals served.
travel Exclusive Compact State
Registered Nurse – Medical Surgical
  • Sunnyvale, Texas – 75182
    Distance from Houston: 221 miles
  • 12 N,
  • February 3, 2025
  • 13
$1,712 to $1,887
Weekly Pay*
Common Diagnosis/Treatment: Nurse to Patient Ratio: # of Beds: Charting: Cerner Scrub Color: Areas of Float Support: Special Procedures:
travel Compact State
Registered Nurse – Medical Surgical
  • Dallas, Texas – 75230
    Distance from Houston: 225 miles
  • 12 N,
  • January 21, 2025
$1,448 to $1,596
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.
travel Compact State
Registered Nurse – Medical Surgical
  • Sachse, Texas – 75048
    Distance from Houston: 234 miles
  • 12 N,
  • February 17, 2025
  • 13
$1,448 to $1,596
Weekly Pay*
32 bed facility located just east of Plano in the Dallas Metro area
travel Compact State
Registered Nurse – Medical Surgical
  • Granbury, Texas – 76048
    Distance from Houston: 234 miles
  • 12 N,
  • February 10, 2025
  • 13
$1,304 to $1,437
Weekly Pay*
– 83 bed Level 4 Trauma center – Central TX, about 70 miles west of Dallas
travel Compact State
Registered Nurse – Medical Surgical
  • Fort Worth, Texas – 76117
    Distance from Houston: 235 miles
  • 12 N,
  • February 17, 2025
  • 13
$1,498 to $1,651
Weekly Pay*
75 bed community hospital
travel Compact State
Registered Nurse – Medical Surgical
  • Carrollton, Texas – 75010
    Distance from Houston: 238 miles
  • 12 D,
  • January 27, 2025
  • 13
$1,198 to $1,320
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 Houston, Texas

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

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FAQs About Travel MS Nursing Jobs for RNs in Houston, TX

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

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

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

A: A 12 Hour Night shift Medical Surgical nurse in Houston can make an average of $1,384 per week based on recent job availability data.

What hospitals and healthcare facilities have Medical Surgical staff in or near Houston?

  • McGovern Medical School Dept of Family and Community Medicine in Houston (4 miles from Houston)
  • McGovern Medical School Dept of Internal Medicine in Houston (4 miles from Houston)
  • XpertMD in Webster (20.5 miles from Houston)
  • Harris Health – County Detention Facility JA09 (1200 Baker) in Houston (0.5 miles from Houston)
  • Harris Health – County Detention Facility JA07 (701 N San Jacinto) in Houston (0.3 miles from Houston)

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

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

Locating Medical Surgical Travel Nursing Jobs in Houston

In Houston, facilities like McGovern Medical School Dept of Family and Community Medicine, McGovern Medical School Dept of Internal Medicine and XpertMD, all offer MS departments. It’s a great city to work in and nearby to neighborhoods like East Downtown (zip code 77003), Greater Eastwood (zip code 77292) and Greater East End (zip code 77011) neighborhoods.

Other popular cities near Houston’s MS job opportunities are Bellaire (7 miles), Pasadena (10.5 miles) and Alief (14.4 miles). These are near to zip codes: 77030 (4 miles), 77584 (12.9 miles) and 77598 (20.5 miles).

Houston Hospitals With MS Departments

There are 1 hospitals & healthcare facilities that have MS nurses in Houston. 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 Houston.

Clear Lake Regional Medical Center
Shifts
8 D, 8 E, 10 D, 12 D, 12 E, and 12 N
Job Durations
13
Address
500 Medical Center Blvd
Webster, TX 77598
Park Plaza Hospital
Shifts
8 D, 10 D, 12 D, and 12 N
Job Durations
16 and 13
Address
1313 Hermann Drive
Houston, TX 77004
Nearby Neighborhoods
East Downtown (77003), Greater Eastwood (77292), Greater East End (77011), Denver Harbor/ Port Houston (77020), Clinton Park Tri-Community (77029)
* 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.