On-call room, the Glossary
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.[1]
Table of Contents
10 relations: Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education, Bunk bed, Couch, Directive (European Union), European Economic Community, Hospital, Junior doctor, Mess, National Health Service, Shift work.
- Hospital departments
- Hospital stubs
- Working conditions
Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education
The Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education (ACGME) is the body responsible for accrediting all graduate medical training programs (i.e., internships, residencies, and fellowships, a.k.a. subspecialty programs) for physicians in the United States.
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Bunk bed
A bunk bed or set of bunks is a type of bed in which one bed frame (a bunk) is stacked on top of another bed, allowing two or more sleeping-places to occupy the floor space usually required by just one.
Couch
A couch, also known as a sofa, settee, chesterfield, or davenport, is a cushioned item of furniture for seating multiple people (although it is not uncommon for a single person to use a couch alone).
Directive (European Union)
A directive is a legal act of the European Union that requires member states to achieve particular goals without dictating how the member states achieve those goals.
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The European Economic Community (EEC) was a regional organisation created by the Treaty of Rome of 1957,Today the largely rewritten treaty continues in force as the Treaty on the functioning of the European Union, as renamed by the Lisbon Treaty.
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Hospital
A hospital is a healthcare institution providing patient treatment with specialized health science and auxiliary healthcare staff and medical equipment.
Junior doctor
In the United Kingdom, junior doctors are qualified medical practitioners working whilst engaged in postgraduate training.
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Mess
The mess (also called a mess deck aboard ships) is a designated area where military personnel socialize, eat and (in some cases) live.
National Health Service
The National Health Service (NHS) is the umbrella term for the publicly funded healthcare systems of the United Kingdom, comprising the NHS in England, NHS Scotland and NHS Wales.
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Shift work
Shift work is an employment practice designed to keep a service or production line operational at all times.
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See also
Hospital departments
- Acute medical unit
- AmadeoLab
- Ambulatory care
- Burn center
- Central sterile services department
- Coronary care unit
- Day hospital
- EmPATH unit
- Emergency department
- Endoscopy unit
- Geriatric intensive-care unit
- Hospital pharmacy
- Inpatient care
- Intensive care unit
- Neonatal intensive care unit
- On-call room
- Outpatient department
- Pediatric intensive care unit
- Physical therapy
- Post-anesthesia care unit
- Psychiatric hospital
- Rehabilitation hospital
- Release of information department
- Trauma center
Hospital stubs
- Acute rehabilitation unit
- Burn center
- Case mix group
- Charitable hospital
- Chief physician
- Clinique Saint-Jean
- Federal Medical Centre, Azare
- Holy Family Red Crescent Medical College Hospital
- Maternity hospital
- On-call room
- Operating room management
- PIH Health
- Regional hospital
- Secondary hospital
- Sheikh Russel National Gastroliver Institute & Hospital
- Sklifosovsky Institute for Emergency Medicine
- Tertiary referral hospital
Working conditions
- Absence management
- Alliance for Bangladesh Worker Safety
- Bracero Selection Process
- Business tourism
- Company store
- Compensating differential
- Cosmetics policy
- Designated Suppliers Program
- Employment compensation
- Fair Labor Association
- Fall protection
- Flexible work arrangement
- Fly-in fly-out
- General duty clause
- Hazards Campaign
- High heel policy
- Hijabophobia
- Hot desking
- Injury prevention
- Job creep
- Job stacking
- Labor rights
- Labour law
- Medical gown
- Menopause in the workplace
- National Day of Mourning (Canadian observance)
- Occupational safety and health
- On-call room
- Outline of working time and conditions
- Participatory ergonomics
- Personal protective equipment
- Precarity
- Quality of working life
- Remote work
- Rope access
- SA8000
- Safe-in-Sound Award
- Scottish Council for Women's Trades
- Sexual harassment in the workplace in the United States
- Shift work sleep disorder
- Simon Jones Memorial Campaign
- Split shift
- Telecommuting
- The Condition of the Working Class in England
- The Fire People
- Total recordable incident rate
- Working time
References
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/On-call_room
Also known as Doctor's mess, Doctors' mess.