On-call room

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.

On-call room

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

• Mess, a military term for the place where people eat or socialize