Hi. I'm just wondering how often other nurses are required to take call and how long a period of being on-call lasts. Also, I am curious how it is determined who will do scheduled weekend visits if they are planned.
I am first call roughly 50% of the time. Our on-call periods are from 5p-8a Mon-Fri. Weekend on-call is 8am-8am. :uhoh21: For the most part if I am not first call then I will be secondary. In response to complaints about on-call structure, the company reports that it a triage team is being considered to decrease the number of calls. If the team was ever actually formed the only calls the on-call would receive would require a visit for a specific reason.
I haven't quite figured out the "rule" for determining who is responsible for weekend visits if they get scheduled. I have done weekend visits when I was on-call, not on-call, when the patient is one of my primary patients and when the patient is not a person I generally visit.
