OK - here's a tough problem but I'll ask it anyway.
I occasionally need to be "on call" with my job. That means I have to be contactable via cell phone.
So -- how can I be contacted if I'm swimming laps?
I can park my cell phone on the pool deck with a towel covering it and then check it but that means I can't do an extended # of laps.
=> Is there any apparatus that would allow me to wear an earbud to let me know the phone on the pool deck is ringing so I can then immediately swim back to answer? Kinda like a "Bluetooth" ear receiver?
Any thoughts?
Thank you.
It sort of depends on how critical your "call" is! If you work in OB, you call the hospital & ask if anything is imminent, if not tell the nurses you will be out of commission for an hour (or whatever) & will call them as soon as you are done. (This is what I did/do.) Then you hand the phone to the lifeguard (who you are super friendly with & knows your occupation) and they blow the whistle for another super friendly guard to come get you if the phone rings from the hospital.
If you have a different kind of call, like say, if someone calls off you have to go in, or the staffing needs another person, you call the office right before swimming & advise them of your swim & tell them you'll call them as soon as you're done!
I would think this would work for ANYone - even an anesthesiologist who has to be able to be at the hospital in 20 minutes from the time they were called. Unless the pool is farther away than that. Good luck!
It sort of depends on how critical your "call" is! If you work in OB, you call the hospital & ask if anything is imminent, if not tell the nurses you will be out of commission for an hour (or whatever) & will call them as soon as you are done. (This is what I did/do.) Then you hand the phone to the lifeguard (who you are super friendly with & knows your occupation) and they blow the whistle for another super friendly guard to come get you if the phone rings from the hospital.
If you have a different kind of call, like say, if someone calls off you have to go in, or the staffing needs another person, you call the office right before swimming & advise them of your swim & tell them you'll call them as soon as you're done!
I would think this would work for ANYone - even an anesthesiologist who has to be able to be at the hospital in 20 minutes from the time they were called. Unless the pool is farther away than that. Good luck!
