Hospital/Medical Interpreter (Spanish)

Responsibilities:

Ensure that there is an effective communication between patients and providers that may be facing a language barrier. Also make sure that the patients feel heard, comfortable and, try to help and create for them an experience in our hospital that they won’t forget.

Education:

• University of Puerto Rico at Arecibo
• Kirkwood College

Certifications:

• EKG Reading Certification
• Physical Exam Certification
• Pharmacology Education Certification

Special Interests and Activities:

• Reading sometimes
• going to the beach
• spending time with my family
• appreciate the changes of color in the sky
• movies

Contact:

Phone: 319-356-1967
Office address: C501 GH
Email: natalia-sotorivera@uiowa.edu
Available on VoalteMe and Spok Mobile

When asked, “What inspires you?”:

“The fact that we have a new mercy every morning. This means I receive a brand-new opportunity every time I get the chance to open up my eyes and try hard so that I can be 1% better than what I was yesterday. Growth is a lifetime process. There is nothing impossible in this world and everything you set your mind to you have the power and the potential to do it… there is a reason to WHY nobody understands that crazy idea ONLY you had.”