Anon-call room, sometimes referred to as thedoctors' mess, is a room in ahospital with either acouch or abunkbed intended for staff to rest in while they are on call or due to be.
In theEuropean Community, the 2003 extension of the working timedirective tojunior doctors and the ruling that on-call time counts as working hours has resulted in the introduction ofshift 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]
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