JP6795404B2 - Nurse call system with bedside monitor - Google Patents

Description

The present invention relates to a nurse call system installed in a hospital, a nursing facility, or the like, and more particularly to a nurse call system that displays a nurse's response status on a bedside monitor when a patient makes a call with a nurse call slave unit.

In recent years, there is known a nurse call system in which patient information such as a medical record is displayed on a bedside monitor so that a nurse who visits the treatment can view and update the patient information on the spot. For example, in Patent Document 1, when a patient makes a call with a nurse call slave unit, a message indicating that the patient is calling is displayed on the bedside display device (bedside monitor), and a nurse who visits the procedure receives a call. The technology that allows you to enter the reason for the call along with the recovery operation is described.

Japanese Unexamined Patent Publication No. 2013-255611

However, according to the technique of Patent Document 1, although it can be confirmed that the call is being made, for example, when the nurse is busy with the treatment of another patient and cannot respond, the patient does not receive any information. There was a problem that the call button was pressed many times due to anxiety because the patient had to wait without being given.

Therefore, an object of the present invention is to provide a nurse call system capable of alleviating the anxiety of a waiting patient by notifying the patient who called the nurse of the state of the nurse.

In order to solve the above problems, the present invention provides the following means.

(1) A nurse call slave unit in which the patient calls a nurse, a bedside monitor for displaying information about the patient, and a control means for controlling the display of the bedside monitor are provided, and the control means is from the nurse call slave unit. A nurse call system characterized by displaying the response status of a nurse to a call on a bedside monitor.

(2) The nurse call system according to (1), wherein the response state includes a state in which a response is suspended by a nurse.

(3) The nurse call system according to (2), wherein the response state includes a state in which the response is being held by the nurse.

(4) A nurse call slave unit in which a patient calls a nurse, a mobile information terminal in which the nurse responds to a call from the slave unit, a bedside monitor that displays information about the patient, and a control means for controlling the bedside monitor. A nurse call system characterized in that the control means performs a process of displaying information about a nurse who responded on a mobile information terminal on a bedside monitor.

(5) The nurse call system according to (4), wherein the control means includes a process of displaying the response history information of the nurse to the call from the nurse call slave unit on the bedside monitor.

According to the nurse call system of the present invention, the response status of the nurse to the call from the patient is displayed on the bedside monitor, so that there is an effect that the anxiety of the patient waiting for the response can be alleviated.

It is a system diagram of the nurse call system which shows one Embodiment of this invention. It is a block diagram which shows the structure of the nurse call system of FIG. It is a schematic diagram which shows an example of the in-call display displayed on the bedside monitor. It is a schematic diagram which shows an example of the hold display displayed on a bedside monitor. It is a schematic diagram which shows an example of the hold continuation display displayed on a bedside monitor. It is a schematic diagram which shows an example of the response history display displayed on a bedside monitor.

Hereinafter, an embodiment in which the present invention is embodied in a nurse call system will be described with reference to the drawings. As shown in FIG. 1, the nurse call system 1 of this embodiment is used for a nurse call slave unit 2 in which a patient calls a nurse, a bedside monitor 3 installed near a patient bed in a hospital room, and a call from a patient. The nurse call master unit 4 to which the nurse responds, the mobile information terminal 5 carried by the nurse, and the call from the nurse call slave unit 2 are received via the corridor light 7, and the nurse call master unit 4 and the mobile information terminal are received. A controller 6 that relays to 5, a patient information server 8 that stores patient information such as an electronic chart, a management server 9 that acquires patient information update data from the controller 6 at predetermined intervals, and a bedside monitor 3. It is composed of a management PC 10 for performing basic settings and the like.

As shown in FIG. 2, the controller 6 stores the identification information of the mobile information terminal 5 and the identification information of the nurse in association with the CPU 61 that communicates with an external device such as the bedside monitor 3 via the interface 64. It includes a nurse information storage unit 62 and a response history storage unit 63 that stores history information in which a nurse responds to a call from a patient and patient identification information in association with each other.

The CPU 61 controls to transmit a call signal from the nurse call slave unit 2 to the nurse call master unit 4 and the mobile information terminal 5, and transmits a response signal from the nurse call master unit 4 or the mobile information terminal 5 to the nurse call slave unit 2. Control to update the screen display of the bedside monitor 3.

Next, the operation of the nurse call system 1 having the above configuration will be described with reference to FIGS. 2 to 6. When the patient performs a call operation with the nurse call slave unit 2, a call signal is transmitted to the controller 6 via the corridor light 7. The controller 6 stores a nurse in charge or a team of nurses in charge (hereinafter referred to as a nurse) predetermined for each patient by team nursing, primary nursing, etc., and controls when the controller 6 receives a call signal. The CPU 61 of the machine 6 transmits a call signal to these predetermined nurses. Further, along with the transmission of the call signal, as shown in FIG. 3, a call status signal is transmitted to the bedside monitor 3 of the calling patient, and a screen 21 including a message 22 indicating that the call is in progress is displayed.

By the way, since a nurse is in charge of a plurality of patients, one nurse may be called from a plurality of patients at the same time. In such cases, the patient will wait for the nurse's response while the nurse performs the procedure in sequence. Therefore, in the nurse call system 1 of the present embodiment, when calls to the same nurse are duplicated, a hold status signal is transmitted to the bedside monitor 3 of the patient whose response from the nurse is pending. , A "hold" message 23 indicating to the patient that the call is on hold is displayed on the screen 21. The pending message 23 may include the number of waiting patients.

In general, when there is a call with a high degree of urgency, the nurse gives priority to the call with a high degree of urgency and responds regardless of the order of the calls. Therefore, if there is a highly urgent call, the patient whose call is on hold will be further put on hold. Therefore, in the nurse call system 1 of the present embodiment, when the nurse who holds the call and the nurse who made the call with high urgency overlap, the bedside monitor of the patient whose call is held is held. A hold continuation status signal is transmitted to No. 3, and a “hold continuation” message 24 indicating that the response hold by the nurse is ongoing is displayed on the screen 21 as shown in FIG. 4 (b).

Therefore, according to the nurse call system 1 of this embodiment, the response status of the nurse side is displayed on the bedside monitor 3 of the patient whose call is held or held, so that the patient can make his / her own call to the nurse. You can know that it has arrived.

On the other hand, when the nurse who receives the call answers from the mobile information terminal 5, the response signal is transmitted to the controller 6. When the controller 6 receives the response signal, it reads out the nurse information from the nurse information storage unit 62 based on the identification information of the mobile information terminal 5 included in the response signal, and as shown in FIG. 5, the calling patient The nurse information 25 including the name of the nurse is displayed on the screen 21 of the bedside monitor 3.

According to this configuration, the patient can confirm the nurse with whom he / she is talking, and has the effect of being able to communicate with peace of mind.

Further, when the nurse who receives the call answers from the nurse call master unit 4 or the mobile information terminal 5, the response signal is transmitted to the controller 6. When the controller 6 receives the response signal, it stores the received date and time, the responder's identification information included in the response signal, and the like in the response history storage unit 63 in association with the calling patient's identification information.

As shown in FIG. 6, the response history inquiry is performed by touching the response history inquiry button 26 displayed on the bedside monitor 3. When the response history inquiry operation is performed, the response history inquiry signal is transmitted from the bedside monitor 3 to the controller 6. The CPU 61 of the controller 6 that has received the response history inquiry signal stores the response history information such as the date and time when the nurse responded and the name of the nurse who responded based on the patient identification information included in the response history inquiry signal. Read from the unit 63, and display the history information on the screen 21 of the calling bedside monitor 3. After confirmation, the previous screen can be returned by an operation such as touching the back button 27.

According to this configuration, the nurse who visits the procedure in response to the call can check the patient's condition from the frequency of the nurse call, and the nurse who responded before can check the patient's condition. is there.

The present invention is not limited to the above embodiment, and for example, the hold duration may be predicted and displayed as the response status. In addition, the configuration of each part can be arbitrarily changed and implemented without departing from the spirit of the present invention.

1 Nurse call system 2 Nurse call slave unit 3 Bedside monitor 4 Nurse call master unit 5 Mobile information terminal 6 Controller 7 Corridor light 8 Patient information server 9 Management server 10 Management PC
21 Screen 22 Calling message 23 Pending message 24 Pending ongoing message 61 CPU
62 Nurse information storage unit 63 Response history storage unit 64 Interface

Claims (5)

It is equipped with a nurse call slave unit in which the patient calls a nurse, a bedside monitor that displays information about the patient, and a control means that controls the display of the bedside monitor.
The nurse call system is characterized in that the control means performs a process of displaying the response status of a nurse to a call from the nurse call slave unit on the bedside monitor when calls to the same nurse are duplicated. .. The nurse call system according to claim 1, wherein the response state includes a state in which the response is suspended by a nurse. The nurse call system according to claim 2, wherein the response state includes a state in which a response is pending by a nurse. It is provided with a nurse call slave unit in which a patient calls a nurse, a portable information terminal in which the nurse responds to the call, a bedside monitor that displays information about the patient, and a control means for controlling the bedside monitor.
When the control means makes duplicate calls to the same nurse, the bedside monitor displays the response status of the nurse to the call from the nurse call slave unit and the information about the nurse who responded with the mobile information terminal. A nurse call system characterized by performing the process of making the patient. The nurse call system according to claim 4, wherein the control means includes a process of displaying the response history information of the nurse to the call from the nurse call slave unit on the bedside monitor.

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