Full-time Pediatric RN/LPN for Infant Tracheostomy Care
Columbia, South Carolina
Still listed, seen 2 weeks ago · Posted Aug 26
- Hours a week
- 40
What the listing says
Role
- Schedule
- 40 hours
- Term
- Permanent
- Practice
- Epic charting
- Setting
- Home Health
- Accepts
- RN
Ratio not posted. Ask in the interview.
Pay
- Against the board
The median for nursing in South Carolina is $34/hr, across 116 postings. It covers every nursing role in the state, so it is a bearing, not a like-for-like comparison.
About this role
Private Duty Pediatric Nurse — Infant with Tracheostomy
Location: Columbia, S. C
Schedule
- 40 hours per week
- Employment Type: Full Time
- Pay: 30-36 Dollars Per Hour
Read the full posting
We are seeking a compassionate, dependable, and experienced pediatric nurse to provide private-duty care for a sweet and precious infant with a tracheostomy.
This is an opportunity to become a trusted member of a loving family’s care team while providing attentive, one-on-one nursing care in a comfortable home environment.
Responsibilities
- Provide safe, attentive, and developmentally appropriate nursing care
- Provide tracheostomy care and monitoring according to the infant’s established care plan
- Monitor respiratory status and recognize changes that require intervention
- Perform suctioning and other ordered respiratory treatments as appropriate
- Administer medications and treatments as prescribed
- Monitor vital signs and overall condition
- Assist with feeding and other daily care needs
- Maintain accurate nursing documentation
- Communicate appropriately with parents, physicians, therapists, and other members of the care team
- Follow all physician orders, emergency protocols, and infection-control procedures
- Provide a calm, nurturing, and reassuring presence for the infant and family
Qualifications
- Current RN or LPN/LVN license in , as applicable
- Pediatric nursing experience required
- Experience caring for infants with tracheostomies strongly preferred
- Current CPR/BLS certification
- Strong assessment, communication, and clinical skills
- Dependable, patient, compassionate, and attentive
- Comfortable working closely with parents and respecting the family’s home environment
- Willingness to complete any required pediatric/tracheostomy-specific training
What We’re Looking For
Most importantly, we are looking for someone who will treat this little one with the same gentleness, patience, dignity, and love that they would want for their own child. The ideal nurse is clinically confident while also being nurturing, trustworthy, and genuinely invested in the infant’s comfort and well-being.
If you are a caring pediatric nurse looking for a meaningful one-on-one nursing opportunity, we would love to hear from you.
To Apply: Please respond with your resume, nursing credentials, relevant pediatric/tracheostomy experience, availability, and professional references to this posting.
- Pay: $30.00 - $36.00 per hour
- Expected hours: 40.0 per week
- Work Location: In person
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Requirements
- Current RN or LPN/LVN license in , as applicable
- Pediatric nursing experience required
- Experience caring for infants with tracheostomies strongly preferred
- Current CPR/BLS certification
- Strong assessment, communication, and clinical skills
- Dependable, patient, compassionate, and attentive
- Comfortable working closely with parents and respecting the family’s home environment
- Willingness to complete any required pediatric/tracheostomy-specific training
Place
- City
- Columbia, South Carolina
- Rent against this pay
- 21% of monthly gross
- Local household income
- $55,529/yr
- Metro price level
- 6% below the national average
$1,204 median rent against $5,720 a month at $33/hr for 40 hours a week, before tax.
all local households, not nurse pay
Columbia area index 93.7, where 100 is the national average.
Columbia, South Carolina's capital, blends Southern charm with collegiate energy thanks to the University of South Carolina campus downtown. The Congaree River winds through the city, and the Vista district offers dining and nightlife. Nurses relocating here will find a mid-sized metro with a relaxed pace and warm weather most of the year.
Cost figures from U.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis.
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You'd work 1:1 in a home with an infant who has a tracheostomy, doing the suctioning and respiratory treatments on a posted 40-hour week. You'd hear average commutes of about 16–23 minutes, and people in East Columbia and Elgin openly…
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