jokes? English Speaking?

Nurses are a curious lot. So many personality types. It's no surprise all the Filipina nurses are still talking in Tagalog, Bisaya etc even at work. Of course the other staff will mimic us and say "nama kahagata ata aga bagata". That's how we sound to them. And we get "the eye" sometimes to warn us to shift back to English, which we readily do. I still catch myself saying words twice, first in the Filipino-English way-cough is "kaf", followed by "kof" to correct my ACCENT and you'll see the expression on your patient's face when she understands (finally) what you mean. We do appreciate our patients who have to put up with our accents especially since not all Pinays will change the way they speak. Think "telepoan" and "wats dat?"
O sige, babay na.

saline locks,heparin locks and such stuffs

It's been awhile, but just to let you nurses in the old country a little taste of nursing in the USA, we seldom keep patients (at least the doctors don't) on iv fluids for a long time on a keep vein open anymore. We get patients with a saline lock(hep lock works the same way) or maybe two if they are in telemetry and anytime an iv is ordered, we just hook them up. Of course, the iv sites need to be replaced every 3 days and the iv tubing every 24 hours. Infusion pumps are routine here too. I wonder if we use these saline locks routinely in the Philippines already?