RN Maria Jenevieve Pasicolan can still recall the first time she worked as a nurse at a Canadian hospital. She completed three months of orientation at Toronto’s SickKids Hospital and was in the middle of helping a patient when she asked her colleague: “Can you grab me a plaster?” Given her colleague’s puzzled look, she clarified that she needed it for her patient’s IV. She learned quickly that, in Canada, she needs to ask for “surgical tape.” “It was funny because the (Canadian) terms…are different from back home (in the Philippines),” she says. And this wasn’t the only difference she encountered. At SickKids, they were using different devices and machines, dealing with different disea...