Annalise Lopez
Riverside,CA
Summary
Proficient and caring nursing team member offering outstanding patient-facing experience. Adept at addressing patient needs with compassionate care and attention to detail. Diligent about maximizing satisfaction, safety and wellness while serving patients of all backgrounds. experience providing skilled care to diverse patient populations. Compassionate professional with great engagement skills. Prioritize tasks and maintains accurate documentation.
Overview
12
12
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification
Work History
Care Assistant
San Bernardino County Dept. Of Behavioral Health
2019.01 - Current
- Under direct supervision, assists the staff of a clinic in providing basic patient care and treatment; performs related duties as required
- Assist nursing staff with daily duties
- Receive, review and complete all phone messages regarding refills, complications etc
- Including but not limited to calling in prescriptions, calling pharmacies and patients
- Process and submit prior authorizations ( to obtain approval from insurance)
- Receiving Medications from pharmacy for injectable medications and logging them correctly in the proper log books
- Scheduling all injection patients
- Clerical duties
- New employee training and onboarding
Student Vocational Nurse
Sierra Vista
2023.07 - 2023.09
- Worked alongside experienced nursing professionals to learn new procedures.
- Administered medications via oral, IV, and intramuscular injections and monitored responses.
- Monitored patient vital signs, reporting any changes to experienced nursing staff.
- Administered close patient care, checked vital signs, and monitored telemetry.
- Helped patients complete bathing, dressing and eating.
- Protected patients and healthcare team members from infection by sterilizing equipment and reusable supplies.
- Supported diagnoses by taking blood samples from patients for laboratory testing.
Student Vocational Nurse
Reche Canyon Rehab Center
2023.01 - 2023.03
- Worked alongside experienced nursing professionals to learn new procedures.
- Administered medications via oral, IV, and intramuscular injections and monitored responses.
- Monitored patient vital signs, reporting any changes to experienced nursing staff.
- Administered close patient care, checked vital signs, and monitored telemetry.
Student Vocational Nurse
Pomona Vista
2022.07 - 2022.09
- Cared for wounds, provided treatments, and assisted with procedures.
- Assisted with admissions, appointments, transfers, and discharges.
- Assisted with feeding and monitored intake to help patients achieve nutritional objectives.
Certified Medical Assistant
Dr. Sudhakar Mallela
2018.01 - 2018.08
- Schedule and register new patients
- Run eligibility on all patients Check for authorization and request authorizations for appointments medications and diagnostic testing
- Obtain and request patient records from patient’s previous hospital admission and primary physician offices
- Check for outstanding labs, x-rays, consults, etc
- Review previous office note to determine tests required at time of service
- Flag chart with any outstanding needs
- Prepare patient for examination and/or treatment obtaining vital signs such as blood pressure, pulse, temperature and weight
- Record vital signs and update medication list
- Consistently demonstrate ability to respond to changing situations in a flexible manner in order to meet current needs, such as reprioritizing work as necessary
Certified Medical Assistan
CHOC Children's Hospital
2016.12 - 2017.10
- Assist physicians in a Multi-Specialty pediatric office
- Daily duties include front and back office duties
- Vitals, charting in EMR, preparing for next day clinics, obtaining lab results from outside facilities, check in patients and collect co pays and discharge patients and schedule follow up appointments.Specialties included: Gastroenterology, endocrinology, nephrology, neurology, cardiology, pulmonology, rheumatology and pediatric Surgery.
Certified Medical Assistant II
Planned Parenthood Los Angeles
2016.05 - 2016.07
- Obtain medical history, interview and educate clients ensuring informed consent, perform options and abortion education; make appointments/referrals for follow-up medical services
- Perform basic lab
- Obtain vital signs, Assist Clinicians as needed
- Gather information regarding sensitive subjects such as rape, STIs, risks of sexual activity for early teens, and abortions
- Schedule appointments for family planning
- Comply with all safety policies and procedures including infection control
CMA/Reception
Torrance Memorial Hospital
2015.12 - 2016.05
- Daily duties at the front desk was checking in patients, verifying their insurance, updating HIPPA and miscellaneous consents, collecting copayments
- Checking out patients and giving them all documents that the doctors may have ordered for lab tests referrals and any diagnostic orders and scheduling follow up visits
- Answering telephone calls and assisting with taking messages for patients and completing any tasks that were in our scope, prescription refills, faxing records, scheduling appts
- Assisted in vaccines and blood draw, vitals and documentation in EMR.
Medical Assistant/ACR
CHLA
2012.02 - 2015.12
- Orthopedics, Neurology, Cardiology, Hematology, Plastic Surgery, Ophthalmology, ENT, Endocrinology/Diabetes, Pulmonology, Urology, Gastro
- Assisted in the Grand opening of three satellite clinics
- Trained staff in positions from Medical assistants, financial counselors and ACR’s and also assisted in the training of New CHLA managers in the daily clinic duties and flow for the satellite clinics in South Bay and Santa Monica
- EMR Go Live and setup for transitioning process, Procedures for clinic flow, Seeked out various Vendors for supplies and services, obtained relationships with Labs to set up accounts and ease obtaining results
- Prepared future clinics, gathered information from families to register patient, checked insurance eligibility and co pay, requested authorizations for visits, studies, labs, injectable medications, surgeries etc.
Education
Licensed Vocational Nurse - Nursing
Smith Chason School of Nursing
Ontario, CA09.2023
Medical Assistant Program -
Kaplan College
Riverside, CA12.2008
General Education -
Riverside Community College
Riverside, CA12.2003
General Education -
California Polytechnic University
Pomona, CA12.1999
Skills
- Patient Companionship
- HIPAA Compliance
- Multitasking and Organization
- Complex Problem-Solving
- First Aid and Safety
- Medication Administration
- Strong Ethics
- Patient Care
- Compassionate Communication
- Case Management
- Verbal and Written Communication Skills
- Time Management
- Medical Office Administration
- Direct Patient Care
Administrative
- EMR
- AVATAR
- NextGen
- Cerner
- Epic
- LabCORP, Quest
- Microsoft office
Clinical Back Office
- Cast Removal and assisted Physicians in application of Cast
- Venipuncture
- EKG’s
- Vital signs
- Throat cultures
- Drug testing
- Bandaging and dressing
- Administering injections: Deltoid, intramuscular, subcutaneous, gluteus and Z-track
- Vision screening
- First aid
Certification
- CMA - Certified Medical Assistant
- CPR Certified
Timeline
Student Vocational Nurse
Sierra Vista
2023.07 - 2023.09
Student Vocational Nurse
Reche Canyon Rehab Center
2023.01 - 2023.03
Student Vocational Nurse
Pomona Vista
2022.07 - 2022.09
Care Assistant
San Bernardino County Dept. Of Behavioral Health
2019.01 - Current
Certified Medical Assistant
Dr. Sudhakar Mallela
2018.01 - 2018.08
Certified Medical Assistan
CHOC Children's Hospital
2016.12 - 2017.10
Certified Medical Assistant II
Planned Parenthood Los Angeles
2016.05 - 2016.07
CMA/Reception
Torrance Memorial Hospital
2015.12 - 2016.05
Medical Assistant/ACR
CHLA
2012.02 - 2015.12
Licensed Vocational Nurse - Nursing
Smith Chason School of Nursing
Medical Assistant Program -
Kaplan College
General Education -
Riverside Community College
General Education -
California Polytechnic University
- CMA - Certified Medical Assistant
- CPR Certified
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