Dave Branton, Flight Nurse
My Day
On call
My work is completely on-call. I can be called out at anytime of the day or night. Those 4:00am calls in the middle of February when the wind is blowing and it's -35 are really hard to get up for.
There are three nurses on my rotation but you still never really know when the phone will ring. Sure as anything, the moment I plan something or get into something, I'll get a call. If I have dinner plans or go to see a movie, I can almost guarantee my pager will go off.