Leslie Padilla
Los Angeles,CA
Overview
5
5
years of professional experience
Work History
Patient Care Technician
DaVita
11.2024 - Current
- Setting up, operating, and monitoring dialysis machines, ensuring they function correctly and safely.
- Educating patients and their families about dialysis and kidney disease, and providing emotional support.
- Ability to provide compassionate care, monitor vital signs, and respond to patient needs.
- Ensure patients fistula/graft access has a continuous bruit and thrill prior to cannulation
- Monitoring patients as they undergo dialysis.
Transportation Coordinator
Altamed Medical Group
03.2024 - 11.2024
- Coordinate daily transportation of AltaMed PACE participants by managing incoming and outgoing calls.
- Maintain a daily list of cancellation reasons for transportation requests.
- Coordinate transportation request forms with transportation vendors and the AltaMed transportation department.
- Ensure timely and safe transport for participants by effectively managing logistics.
- Utilize electronic health records to document and track transportation activities.
Unit Coordinator
Providence Saint John's Medical Center
07.2023 - 11.2023
- Provide overall management for patient care in the PACU
- Ensure patient care satisfaction, quality, and safety and promote optimal patient outcomes
- Assist in completion of performance evaluations, counseling, and coaching of staff
- Participate in hiring staff and in day-to-day operational supervision
- Conduct team meetings, staff development, and education
- Responsible for developing and evaluating performance initiatives for assigned units.
Nursing Communications Technician
Cedars Sinai Hospital
10.2021 - 11.2023
- Greeting patients and visitors and attending to their queries
- Answering, screening, and routing incoming calls
- Transferring patients' medical information from the nurses' records to patients' medical records
- Referring inquiries to nurses and doctors
- Ensuring the smooth operation of the unit by adhering to policies and procedures and reporting on changes that have to be made
- Checking unit supplies, anticipating inventory requirements, placing orders, and overseeing receipt of the supplies
- Maintaining a safe and hygienic environment by adhering to infection-control regulations.
Imaging Specialist
Cedars Sinai Hospital
12.2020 - 10.2021
- Contacts referring clinicians and connects them to radiologists as needed; all requests will be tracked and validated for quality assurance
- Serves as telephone triage person for incoming calls to radiologists and transfers to appropriate service/individuals
- Acts as liaison for ED physicians needing to contact radiologist over lunch hour
- Acts as liaison to technologists needing to contact radiologist for a STAT read
- Responds to requests from radiologists when they need to contact hospital personnel (Central IT, Radiology IT, GE, etc.)
- Checks status of ED studies and contacts appropriate service for studies not read within 90 minutes
- Perform administrative duties
- Prepare patients for examination and treatment
- Verify patient's insurance and collect copayments
- Answer phone calls, respond to emails and address any fax requests
- Maintain patient records and other information
- Work closely with the physician to receive guidance and instruction for treating patient.
Education
Bachelor of Science - Nursing
Charles R Drew University of Science And Medicine
Los Angeles, CA08-2027
Natural Sciences
East Los Angeles College
Monterey Park, CA06-2025
Languages
Spanish
Native or Bilingual
Timeline
Patient Care Technician
DaVita
11.2024 - Current
Transportation Coordinator
Altamed Medical Group
03.2024 - 11.2024
Unit Coordinator
Providence Saint John's Medical Center
07.2023 - 11.2023
Nursing Communications Technician
Cedars Sinai Hospital
10.2021 - 11.2023
Imaging Specialist
Cedars Sinai Hospital
12.2020 - 10.2021
Bachelor of Science - Nursing
Charles R Drew University of Science And Medicine
Natural Sciences
East Los Angeles College