Being On Call :0/

[xos4eva]

Have been working at my current job for approximately 3 months and have started to be on call for this week, covering for my collaborating physician, I feel like I have not had adequate training but at the same time I don't want to be considered a complainer, any tips from you guys who are doing call regularly that might help? I'm not sure which pts actually need to be woken up at 3 am when I get a call and which pts can wait for the morning, also how do you deal with some critical labs that are given to you on a Saturday/Sunday and there is no contact info for the pt? Thanks in advance for your answers.

:redbeathe

[traumaRUs, MSN, APRN]

What kind of practice?

Are these inpts or outpts?

I do call for a large nephrology practice and on the weekends we rotate call between 4 of us mid-levels and we take calls for 11 dialysis units.

Our practice has an electronic EMR which we can access from any computer so that is what we do: we look up a lot of things if we aren't sure. We do have a physician on call with us too but we try not to call too often.

If you are concerned though I think calling the MD is no problem, especially in the beginning.