As filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on April 10, 2009

Registration No. 333-                

UNITED STATES

SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION

Washington, D.C. 20549

FORM S-8

REGISTRATION STATEMENT

UNDER

THE SECURITIES ACT OF 1933

AMN HEALTHCARE SERVICES, INC.

(Exact name of Registrant as specified in its charter)

12400 High Bluff Drive, Suite 100

San Diego, California 92130

(Address, including zip code, of Registrant’s principal executive offices)

AMN Healthcare Equity Plan

(Full title of the plan)

Denise L. Jackson, Esq.

Senior Vice President, General Counsel and Secretary

AMN Healthcare Service, Inc.

12400 High Bluff Drive, Suite 100

San Diego, California 92130

(866) 871-8519

(Name, address, including zip code, and telephone number, including area code, of agent for service)

Copy to:

John C. Kennedy, Esq.

Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison LLP

1285 Avenue of the Americas

New York, New York 10019–6064

(212) 373-3000

CALCULATION OF REGISTRATION FEE

EXPLANATORY NOTE

AMN Healthcare Services, Inc. (the “Company”) has prepared this Registration Statement in accordance with the requirements of Form S-8 under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended (the “Securities Act”) to increase by 2,142,875 the number of shares of the Company’s common stock, par value $0.01 per share (the “Common Stock”) registered under the AMN Healthcare Equity Plan, as amended (the “Equity Plan”).

Upon effectiveness of this Registration Statement, a total of 5,908,900 shares of Common Stock issuable under the Equity Plan will be registered (which represents the original authorized 723,275 shares of Common Stock, registered on April 12, 2006, as increased by 3,042,750 shares registered on April 18, 2007, and as further increased by the additional 2,142,875 shares being registered hereby (including 292,875 shares forfeited, canceled or terminated other than by exercise under the Company’s Stock Option Plan from January 1, 2007 through March 31, 2009)).

PART II

INFORMATION REQUIRED IN THE REGISTRATION STATEMENT

Pursuant to General Instruction E to Form S-8, the contents of our Registration Statements on Form S-8 (File Nos. 333-133227 and 333-142187) previously filed by us with the Securities and Exchange Commission (the “Commission”) on April 12, 2006 and April 18, 2007, respectively, with respect to the shares of Common Stock reserved for issuance under the Equity Plan are incorporated by reference into this Registration Statement.

The following documents filed with the Commission by us are also incorporated by reference in this Registration Statement:

In addition, all reports and documents filed by us pursuant to Sections 13(a), 13(c), 14 or 15(d) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended, subsequent to the date hereof and prior to the filing of a post-effective amendment which indicates that all securities offered hereby have been sold or which deregisters all securities then remaining unsold, shall be deemed to be incorporated by reference herein and made a part hereof from the date of the filing of such documents.

SIGNATURES

Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Act, the Registrant certifies that it has reasonable grounds to believe that it meets all of the requirements for filing on Form S-8 and has duly caused this registration statement to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned, thereunto duly authorized, in the City of San Diego, State of California on April 9, 2009.

POWER OF ATTORNEY

KNOW ALL PERSONS BY THESE PRESENTS, that each person whose signature appears below constitutes and appoints Susan R. Nowakowski and David C. Dreyer, or any of them, as his true and lawful attorney-in-fact with full power of substitution and resubstitution, in any and all capacities, to sign this registration statement or amendments (including post-effective amendments) thereto and to file the same with all exhibits thereto, and other documents in connection therewith, with the Securities and Exchange Commission, granting unto each of said attorney-in-fact and agents full power and authority to do and perform each and every act and thing requisite and necessary to be done in and about the premises, as fully to all intents and purposes and he might or could do in person, hereby ratifying and conforming all that said attorney-in-fact and agents, or their substitutes, may lawfully do or cause to be done by virtue hereof.

Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, this registration statement has been signed on April 9, 2009 by the following persons in the capacities indicated.

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