Travel OR nursing gives you exposure to surgical specialties you might never see at a single facility. One assignment could focus on orthopedic cases, the next on neurosurgery or robotic-assisted procedures. You gain breadth that strengthens your resume and deepens your perioperative expertise—all while choosing assignments with the call schedule and OR environment you want. The honest challenge: learning new surgeon preferences and facility-specific instrument sets takes adaptation at every assignment. But that's also the draw. You're not repeating the same surgical cases year after year. You're building a diverse surgical background, exploring different OR cultures, and working with new surgical teams every 13 weeks. Ambulatory surgery centers offer predictable schedules with no emergent add-ons. Hospital main ORs bring surgical variety and the intensity of trauma cases.