Pediatric Nurse: Compassionate Care for Kids

South Carolina Pediatric Alliance renowned pediatric practices are dedicated to providing exceptional healthcare services to children from birth through adolescence. Our practices are known for its compassionate care, innovative treatments, and a family-friendly environment.

As a Pediatric Nurse at Palmetto Pediatrics, you will play a crucial role in delivering high-quality care to our young patients. You will work closely with pediatricians, other healthcare professionals, and families to ensure the well-being of children.

• Responsible for wearing a name tag every day.
• Responsible for greeting parents/patients with a smile.
• Responsible for understanding HIPAA and completing a HIPAA training packet annually.
• Responsible for understanding OSHA regulations and participating in OSHA training annually.
• Responsible for understanding the EMR to include being able to type, use a mouse and navigate through windows within the EMR.
• Responsible for identifying themselves and the patient when entering a patient’s exam room.
• Responsible for marking Doctor or MA ready once orders are complete
• Responsible for giving immunizations as ordered by the physicians and properly administer IM, SQ, intranasal and transdermal as indicated by team leader or team leader assigned training.
• Responsible for reviewing the immunization questionnaire prior to administering vaccines to patients.
• Responsible for reviewing the VFC form prior to patient receiving vaccines.
• Responsible for billing VFC correctly to include no charging the vaccines and billing correct VFC codes.
• Responsible for administering non-narcotic medications as instructed by the physician.
• Responsible for preparing a pulse ox as instructed by the physician.
• Responsible for removing staples or sutures as instructed by the physician.
• Responsible for performing sterile bladder catheterizations as instructed by the physician.
• Responsible for giving patients oxygen as instructed by the physician.
• Responsible for assisting the physician with dressing or wound care.
• Responsible for returning incoming parent/patient calls concerning a sick child within 4 hours of receiving call in the organizer and documenting conversation.
• Responsible for taking parent/patient returned calls when parent calls the office back.
• Responsible for verifying a caller is the parent/guardian or an individual listed on the HIPAA form.
• Responsible for placing outgoing calls to parents/patients as directed by the physician prior to leaving each day.
• Responsible for triaging walk in patients.
• Responsible for sending messages regarding medical advice to the Triage Nurse.
• Responsible for completing ADD/ADHD medication telephone follow ups every three months for patients taking controlled substances for ADD/ADHD symptom management to ensure compliance and lack of adverse side effects.
• Responsible for changing name when applicable and signing off on all completed medical calls.
• Responsible for calling in or sending via eRX and documenting medications as directed by the physician.
• Responsible for following up based on appropriate location when an eRX medication has an error message.
• Responsible for distributing medication samples to patients as instructed by the physician and documenting the patient’s name, proper dose, and medication instructions on the sample.
• Responsible for assisting and/or performing the daily required controls. Must be knowledgeable in proper documentation and mixing of controls.
• Responsible for completing and properly documenting the controls for urinalysis strips, strep tests, glucose elite, urine pregnancy and influenza tests.
• Responsible for obtaining specimens/performing tests requiring capillary sticks to include but not limited to CBC, Hgb, Cholesterol, Newborn Screen, Glucose, Bili.
• Responsible for obtaining specimens and perform tests on rapid strep, urinalysis, hemoccult, influenza, monospot, and urine pregnancy.
• Responsible for verifying lot numbers have been controlled prior to using an unopened box of tests strips. If the lot numbers are different, controls the test strips prior to running the test.
• Responsible for notifying the team leader or their…