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BradFromRAD · Joined: 02 Jul 2006 Posts: 9

Hi,

I am asking other techs to please post the way in which your hospital carries out emergent call of technologists.
Do you have emergent call? If not, why?
What do you do instead?

I'm looking for new ideas to present to my manager to either eliminate or improve how call of techs is carried out. Call at my hospital SUCKS, for the simple fact that a)most of the techs here feel as though it's a nuisance to be called in or b) would be worthless when they got here IF they came at all.

Any and all ideas/comments are greatly appreciated and if any part of this message is unclear, or I need to go into further detail, just let me know. Thanks so much!
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ellierayz · Joined: 18 Sep 2008 Posts: 1 Location: michigan

A call stiuation idea

I worked at a hospital and call worked like this.

All the techs that were all RTs had their name up on a board and we took turns taking call.

And we passed the pager around. We use to make it a game.

When the tech who was on call that nite came back into work the next day
she would put the pager on the ledge of the blackboard where all the names of the techs were listed. And the next tech for that nite would get
the pager. Call started at 6pm till 7am so if the even tech needed help
the call tech was called in

We were a family and if the tech on call was working really hard that night
we let her/him stay home and sleep till he could come into work.

He/she was not docked. It was just understood we were family there.

Taking call was not a burden at this place they made it easy because

of the chief techs attitude it was handed down

So try to make a game out of it

Everyone shares

Another idea is try to find a tech who is retired that might want to pick

up some extra cash

Good luck
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