JP2006255104A - Nurse call system - Google Patents

Abstract

<P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a nurse call system which smoothly carries out assigning work of a bed to a patient waiting for a bed in occurrence of an unoccupied bed. <P>SOLUTION: A nurse call master set 3 is provided with: a patient-waiting-for-bed information storage part 8b for storing information obtained by relating an ID of an patient with patient-waiting-for-bed information; a patient-waiting-for-bed information storage part 8b storing the patient-waiting-for-bed information; and a display 7a for displaying a list of both of them. By operation of the nurse call master set 3, the unoccupied bed is assigned to the patient waiting for a bed. <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2006,JPO&NCIPI

Description

  The present invention relates to a nurse call system, and more particularly to a nurse call system capable of performing an operation of assigning an empty bed to a patient waiting for a bed.

In the conventional nurse call system, in order to make it easier for nurses to obtain inpatient information, a nurse call board displaying a list of patient information is installed in the nurse center, and calls from patients and sudden responses are made smoothly. I was able to. However, this nurse call board requires a work to rewrite the name plate of the patient or replace a magnet or the like indicating medical nursing data every time the patient is changed due to discharge or bed movement. It was a troublesome task for the teacher.
Therefore, this nurse call board has been digitized so that it is possible to display a list of individual patient information with a simple operation, and a nurse call system equipped with a display on the nurse call master unit that can easily change inpatients. (For example, refer to Patent Document 1). In such a system, patient management data such as patient room classification, patient name, etc., patient relief classification, medical / nursing data, etc. are displayed on the display, making it easier to manage inpatients and calling It became possible to respond quickly to patients.

Japanese Patent Laid-Open No. 03-11029

  However, although the nurse call master unit equipped with the display as described above has made it easier to manage inpatients, the information on patients waiting for hospitalization (waiting for beds) is not managed together with the information on inpatients. Nurses who can not be assigned quickly when they are free, first check the patients waiting for the bed, and consider which of those patients should be assigned. Burdened the workers.

  Therefore, in view of such a problem, the present invention has an object to provide a nurse call system that can perform an assignment operation smoothly to a patient waiting for a bed when an empty bed occurs.

In order to solve the above-mentioned problem, the invention described in claim 1 includes a nurse call cordless device for a patient to call a nurse, a corridor lamp for notifying the nurse of a call from the nurse call cord, and a nurse. A nurse call system having a nurse call master unit for responding to a call from a call slave unit and a controller for controlling the corridor lamp and the nurse call master unit, wherein the bed waiting information is associated with the patient ID. A bed waiting patient information storage unit for storing waiting patient information is provided in the system, and the nurse call master unit has display means for displaying the bed waiting patient information stored in the bed waiting patient information storage unit.
With this configuration, the nurse call system has patient waiting information and can display the waiting patient information on the nurse call master unit. Therefore, it is not necessary to separately check the patient waiting for the bed, and the hospitalization process for the patient waiting for the bed can be carried out smoothly.

According to a second aspect of the present invention, in the first aspect of the present invention, an ordering system storing patient information is connected to the nurse call master unit, and patient data in bed waiting patient information is extracted from the ordering system. It is created.
With this configuration, patient data is extracted from an ordering system having a patient information database and bed waiting patient information is created, so there is no need to input data separately, and the operator is not burdened.

The invention of claim 3 is characterized in that, in the invention of claim 1 or 2, the nurse call master unit has an edit control means for enabling registration, editing and deletion of bed waiting patient information.
With this configuration, it is possible to update the data of the waiting patient information by the operation of the nurse call parent machine, and it is possible to easily change the waiting patient, assign an empty bed, and the like.

According to a fourth aspect of the present invention, in the invention according to any one of the first to third aspects, it is possible to set the priority of bed allocation for each patient waiting for a bed by operating the nurse call master unit. Features.
With this configuration, if an empty bed is generated, patients need only be selected in order of priority, and the burden of selecting an assigned patient each time is eliminated, thereby reducing the burden on workers such as nurses.

According to a fifth aspect of the present invention, in the invention according to the fourth aspect, the system has priority determination means for rearranging bed waiting patient information in order of priority based on the set priority, Is characterized in that the rearranged bed waiting patient information is displayed on the display means.
With this configuration, rearranged bed waiting patient information is displayed, so it is only necessary to assign the waiting patients to empty beds in the order displayed by operating the nurse call master unit, reducing the burden on the nurse who performs the assignment operation. it can.

The invention according to claim 6 is the invention according to any one of claims 2 to 5, wherein the display unit of the nurse call master unit is generated by the discharge process by performing the discharge process in the nurse call master unit or the ordering system. The vacant bed information is displayed.
With this configuration, if the status of the vacant bed changes, the information can be displayed on the nurse call master unit, so that the vacant bed can always be allocated to the bed waiting patient based on the latest information.

The invention according to claim 7 is the invention according to claim 6, wherein the nurse call master unit has an inpatient information storage unit for storing inpatient information of the corresponding ward, and vacant bed information is added to the waiting patient information. It is characterized by having an operation control means for transferring the patient information to the inpatient information storage unit by associating.
With this configuration, patient data to which an empty bed has been allocated is automatically transferred to the inpatient information storage unit, so there is no need for separate inpatient processing and the burden on the operator can be reduced and patient registration omissions may occur. Absent.

According to the present invention, the nurse call system owns the waiting patient information and can display the waiting patient information on the nurse call master unit. The assignment work can be performed, and it is not necessary to separately check the patient waiting for the bed, and the hospitalization process for the patient waiting for the bed can be smoothly performed. And since the waiting patient information can be operated by the operation of the nurse call master unit, an operation for allocating an empty bed can be easily performed.
In addition, patient data can be created by extracting patient data from an ordering system, which is a database of patient information, so there is no need to input data separately, and the operator is not burdened.
Furthermore, by displaying the patients waiting for bed in order of priority, it is sufficient to assign them to empty beds in the order of display, eliminating the burden of selecting a patient each time, and reducing the burden on the operator such as a nurse who operates the patient.

DESCRIPTION OF EXEMPLARY EMBODIMENTS Hereinafter, embodiments of the invention will be described in detail with reference to the drawings. FIG. 1 is a block diagram showing an example of a nurse call system according to the present invention, wherein 1 is a nurse call cordless handset that performs a nurse call operation, 2 is a corridor lamp that informs the nurse of the call, and 3 is a patient patient A nurse call master unit 4 for responding to a call from, a controller 4 for controlling the nurse call master unit 3 and the corridor lamp 2, and 5 an ordering system for managing patient information.
The nurse call slave unit 1 is composed of a call slave unit 1b for calling operation and a plate slave unit 1b equipped with a calling means such as a microphone and a speaker. The nurse call master unit 3 stores the handset 6a and patient information. It is composed of an LCD master device 6 having an LCD 6b for display and a PC master device 7 composed of a personal computer having a display 7a for displaying a list of inpatient information.

  A nurse call cordless handset 1 is installed for each bed, and is connected to a corridor lamp 2 installed near the entrance of the sickroom for each hospital room. Each corridor lamp 2 is connected to the nurse call master set 3 via a controller 4. Yes. The nurse call master unit 3 and the ordering system 5 are connected via a LAN 8 provided in the hospital.

  In the PC master unit 7, reference numeral 8 denotes a memory for storing patient information, 9 denotes a PC master unit CPU for controlling the PC master unit, and a patient information storage unit 8a composed of patient information as shown in FIG. It is provided in the memory 8. Specifically, the patient information storage unit 8a has data such as patient ID, name, sex, age, symptom, bed number, waiting priority of waiting patient, etc. as patient information. FIG. 2 shows the stored patient information. The state displayed in order of patient ID is shown. Thus, the patient information storage unit 8a is composed of information on both the bed waiting patient and the inpatient.

  This patient information can be displayed on the display 7a by the data display function of the PC master unit 7, and can be registered, edited and deleted by operating the PC master unit 7 under the control of the PC master unit CPU 9 as the editing control means. It has become. However, of this patient information, patient data such as the patient's name, sex, age, and symptoms are extracted from the patient information database of the ordering system 5 via the LAN line 8 and described.

  The ordering system 5 stores inpatient information, patient management data for outpatients, patients waiting for bed, that is, medical history, relief categories, medical nursing data, and medication information in a batch. FIG. 2 shows a system (see, for example, Japanese Patent Application Laid-Open No. 8-30684), in which data is extracted from the ordering system 5 and converted into a predetermined format by a data conversion function provided in the PC base unit 7. Stored as form information.

  Next, the operation of the nurse call system configured as described above will be described. However, regarding the operation of calling the nurse of the nurse station by operating the nurse call slave unit 1 and the operation of the nurse call master unit 3 responding to the call from the nurse call slave unit 1, the conventional nurse call system and Since it is the same and is not the gist of the present invention, the explanation is omitted, and the procedure for assigning a bed to a bed waiting patient will be mainly described.

First, a list of bed waiting patient information is created based on the patient information stored in the patient information storage unit 8a of the PC master device 7. The list of waiting patient information is operated by operating the PC master unit 7 to search the waiting patient list from the patient information storage unit 8a, and information necessary for displaying the waiting patient list (eg, patient ID, name). , Gender, bed number, waiting priority, etc.).
The created bed waiting patient information is stored in the bed waiting patient information storage unit 8 b provided in the memory 8 of the PC master device 7. FIG. 3 shows a list of bed waiting patient information created in this way, and this list is displayed on the display 7 a of the PC master device 7.

The bed waiting patient information is provided with a priority designation column P as shown in FIG. 3, and a waiting priority can be given to each patient in the created list. This priority can be given by the operation of the PC base unit 7, for example, by numbers 1, 2, 3,. Then, by executing the sort process based on the priorities given in this way, the sorting is performed in the order of bed waiting priorities as shown in FIG. 5 by the arithmetic processing of the PC master CPU 9 as the priority determination means. You can create a list of patient information that you have been waiting for.
The bed waiting patient information created in this way is displayed on the display 7 a by the data display function of the PC master device 7.

On the other hand, the PC master device 3 has an empty bed database as shown in the table of FIG. 4, and includes an empty bed information storage unit 8 d in which empty bed data managed by numbers is stored in the memory 8.
When an empty bed generation input is made from the PC master 7 or the ordering system 5, the new empty bed information is notified to the nurse call master 3 and displayed on the display 7a. Based on this information, vacant bed information is registered in the vacant bed database. This is implemented by the PC master device 7 receiving the notification of the empty bed number and writing the empty bed number notified by the operator such as a nurse into the empty bed database using the data conversion function. Note that the vacant bed database may be automatically updated.
Then, when the vacant bed database is updated in this way, the PC master device 7 displays a list of vacant bed information in the table format shown in FIG. 4 on the display 7a by the data display function.

In this way, a list of vacant bed information is displayed on the display 7a in addition to the bed waiting patient information list. By displaying both, the bed number of the patient waiting for bed by operating the PC master unit 7 while viewing the display 7a. An empty bed number can be assigned to the room.
Then, when an empty bed number is entered in, for example, the patient column with the highest priority in the bed waiting patient information list, the inpatient information storage unit 8c is notified at the same time by the arithmetic processing of the PC master CPU 9 as the operation control means, Corresponding patient data is also updated. At the same time, the assigned bed number is deleted from the free bed database. In addition, what is necessary is just to delete the patient data of the bed waiting patient information which allocated the bed from a list suitably.

Specifically, an example of the operation procedure is as follows. To retrieve bed waiting patient information, “0” is assigned in advance to the bed number of the patient in the bed waiting state of the patient information storage means, and this “0” information is stored. For example, when SQL is used as a programming language, bed waiting patient information can be created by executing “SELECT * FROM patient information WHERE bed number = 0”. The priority can be changed by executing “UPDATE patient information SET waiting priority = 1 WHERE patient ID = 2” to change the bed waiting priority of patient ID = 2 to 1.
Furthermore, the empty bed number can be added by executing "INSERT INTO empty bed database VALUES (notified empty bed number)" to add the empty bed number notified to the empty bed database. To assign a bed number to a patient waiting for a bed, execute “UPDATE patient information SET bed number = notified free bed number WHERE patient ID = n” and “DELETE FROM free bed database WHERE bed number = notified free space” By executing “bed number”, the vacant bed number notified from the vacant bed database can be deleted.

In this way, the nurse call system owns the waiting patient information and can display the waiting patient information on the nurse call master unit. Therefore, the bed allocation work can be performed by looking at the display of the nurse call master unit. This eliminates the need for a separate examination of the patient and facilitates hospitalization of patients waiting for bed.
In addition, patient data is extracted from the ordering system, which is a patient information database, and bed waiting patient information is created, so there is no need to input data separately, and there is no burden on the operator. Since editing and deletion can be performed, it is possible to easily change a patient waiting for a bed or assign an empty bed by operating a nurse call master unit.
Furthermore, since priority setting is made for patients waiting for a bed, if empty beds occur, it is only necessary to assign patients to patients in order of priority, and there is no need to select the patient to be assigned each time. Can be reduced.
Further, when the status of the vacant bed changes, the information can be displayed on the nurse call parent machine, so that it is possible to always allocate the vacant bed to the bed waiting patient based on the latest information. In addition, when a bed is assigned to a patient waiting for a bed, patient data assigned to an empty bed is automatically transferred to the inpatient information storage unit, so there is no need for separate hospitalization processing and the burden on the operator can be reduced. There will be no registration omissions.

In the above embodiment, the bed waiting patient information and the empty bed information are displayed on the display 7a of the nurse call master unit 3, and the bed allocation operation is performed on the display 7a. Beds can be allocated simply by displaying them, reducing the burden on workers. In this case, the data update may be performed by, for example, an ordering system.
Further, the priority setting function may not be provided, and if the bed allocation work can be performed by the operation of the nurse call parent device 3, it can be effectively utilized.
Furthermore, although the bed waiting patient information storage unit 8b is provided in the nurse call master unit 3, the bed waiting patient information storage unit may be provided in the controller 4 or the ordering system 5 that originally stores the patient information. If necessary data can be extracted by the call master unit 3, the bed can be allocated to the bed waiting patient on the nurse call master unit side.

It is a block diagram which shows an example of embodiment of the nurse call system which concerns on this invention. It is explanatory drawing of the patient information memorize | stored in the patient information storage part of a nurse call main | base station. It is a screen figure of bed waiting patient information displayed on the display of a nurse call parent machine. It is data explanatory drawing of an empty bed database. It is the screen figure which rearranged and displayed the bed waiting patient information data of FIG. 3 in order of priority.

Explanation of symbols

  1 ・ Nurse call slave unit 2 ・ ・ Corridor light 3 ・ Nurse call master unit 4 ・ ・ Control unit 5 ・ ・ Ordering system 7 ・ ・ PC master unit 7a ・ ・ Display (display means) 8 ··· Memory, 8b · · Bed waiting patient information storage unit, 8c · · Inpatient information storage unit, 8d · · Empty bed information storage unit, 9 · · PC master unit CPU (editing control means, operation control means, priority) Degree determination means).

Claims (7)

A nurse call slave for a patient to call a nurse, a corridor lamp for notifying the nurse of a call from the nurse call slave, and a nurse call master for answering a call from the nurse call slave A nurse call system having a controller for controlling the corridor lamp and the nurse call master unit,
A bed waiting patient information storage unit for storing bed waiting patient information in which bed waiting information is associated with a patient ID is provided in the system, and the nurse call master unit stores a bed waiting patient stored in the bed waiting patient information storage unit. A nurse call system comprising display means for displaying information. 2. The ordering system storing patient information is connected to the nurse call master unit, and patient data in the bed waiting patient information is created by extracting from the ordering system. Nurse call system. The nurse call system according to claim 1 or 2, wherein the nurse call master unit includes an edit control unit that enables registration, editing, and deletion of the bed waiting patient information. The nurse call system according to any one of claims 1 to 3, wherein a priority of bed allocation can be set for each patient waiting for a bed by operation of the nurse call master unit. Based on the set priority, the system has priority determination means for rearranging bed waiting patient information in order of priority, and the nurse call master unit displays the rearranged bed waiting patient information in the display means. The nurse call system according to claim 4, wherein the nurse call system is displayed. 6. The display unit of the nurse call parent device displays empty bed information generated by the discharge processing by performing discharge processing in the nurse call parent device or the ordering system. A nurse call system according to any one of the above. The nurse call master unit has an inpatient information storage unit that stores inpatient information of the corresponding ward, and associates the empty bed information with the bed waiting patient information so that the patient information is stored in the inpatient information storage unit. The nurse call system according to claim 6, further comprising operation control means for shifting.

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