An on-call room, sometimes referred to as the doctors' mess, is a room in a hospital with either a couch or a bunkbed intended for staff to rest in while they are on call or due to be.
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In the European Community, the 2003 extension of the working time directive to junior doctors and the ruling that on-call time counts as working hours has resulted in the introduction of shift work for hospital medical staff, thereby eliminating the requirements for on-call rooms.[1][unreliable source?] A similar change in hospital working hours for interns was implemented in the United States in 2011, but senior residents continue to do 24-hour call.[2] Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education regulations require that residents on call be provided with "adequate sleep facilities" which are "safe, quiet, and private."[3]
See also
edit- Mess, a military term for the place where people eat or socialize
References
edit- ^ Sheila K. Adam; Sue Osborne (2005). Critical Care Nursing. Oxford University Press. p. 23. ISBN 9780198525875.
- ^ Sanghavi, Darshak (2011-08-05). "The Phantom Menace of Sleep-Deprived Doctors". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved Aug 31, 2014.
- ^ "Archived copy" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 2014-07-15. Retrieved 2014-08-25.
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Further reading
edit- "Living and Work Conditions". National Health Service. December 2000. HSC/2000/36.
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(help) - Anna Donald; Michael Stein; James T. H. Teo (2006). The Hands-on Guide for Junior Doctors. Blackwell Publishing. pp. 226. ISBN 9781405136099.