Full-time Pediatric RN/LPN for Infant Tracheostomy Care
Columbia, South Carolina
Posted Aug 26
- Shift and hours
- 40 hours a week
- Unit and setting
- Home Health
- License
- RN licenseCurrent RN or LPN/LVN license in , as applicable
- Term
- Permanent
Do you qualify?
- License
- Current RN or LPN/LVN license in , as applicable
- Certification
- Current CPR/BLS certification
- Experience
- Pediatric nursing experience required
- Also asks
- Willingness to complete any required pediatric/tracheostomy-specific training
- Also asks
- Strong assessment, communication, and clinical skills
- Also asks
- Dependable, patient, compassionate, and attentive
- Also asks
- Comfortable working closely with parents and respecting the family’s home environment
Preferred
- Experience
- Experience caring for infants with tracheostomies strongly preferred
What it pays
- Against similar roles
- In range for South Carolina staff rolesSouth Carolina staff postings that state pay run $29/hr to $54/hr, the middle half $32/hr to $45/hr, across 221 postings.
The role and schedule
- Charting
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The workplace
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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- How are patient load, floating, and staffing support handled day to day?
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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
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
What's around it?
Columbia, SCFrom Census ACS 2024.
Living costs about 6% below the US average
- Median rent
- $1,204/mo
- Household income
- $55,529/yr, all local households, not nurse pay