Carla Espinosa Turk

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Carla is the head nurse at Sacred Heart Hospital, in which the main action of the show takes place.
She is also one of the most mature characters in Scrubs, and acts like a mother to many of the characters, particularly J.D.
Carla originates from the Dominican Republic, and is fluent in Spanish. She speaks in Spanish to her brother and her mother, and we first find that she is a Spanish speaker in "My Old Lady", when she translates for Elliot and her patient. She also regularly gives insults in Spanish, and in "My Musical", she gives the Todd ways to say sexual innuendo in Spanish.
She is prone to overreaction and constantly feels the need to tell friends and co-workers how to go about their lives (most notably the series main character J.D.) and this advice is often unwanted, if not simply intrusive. She is also obsessed with spreading gossip, and when she swore not to spread a secret about Elliot Reid, she walks through the hospital reception awkwardly avoiding answering questions; when Janitor asks of Elliot's whereabouts, she replies: "cheese". She calls bossing people around "her crack" in the fifth season. Despite her personal foibles, no one dares make fun of her; when anyone does, she humiliates them in front of the entire hospital; this regime is briefly altered in one episode, where in a failed attempt to retain her dignity Carla says that she allows her friends to make fun of her. After several jokes about her, she loses her temper with Doug Murphy.