JP2007268019A - Nurse call system - Google Patents

Abstract

<P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a nurse call system allowing a nurse, etc. to easily identify a patient without unnecessarily revealing the name of the patient to a third person such as a visitor. <P>SOLUTION: The nurse call system comprises a nurse call master unit 1 with an individual display part and an individual hallway lamp 2 with an individual display part. The individual display part of the nurse call master unit 1 or the individual display part of the individual hallway lamp 2 has a nominal patient name display area. <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2008,JPO&INPIT

Description

The present invention relates to a nurse call system used in hospitals and welfare facilities, and in particular, by displaying a nominal patient name that is known as a patient name only to medical staff such as nurses, thereby preventing unspecified customers such as visitors. The medical staff itself relates to a nurse call system that can easily obtain necessary patient information while protecting patient privacy.

Conventional nurse call master units have a list-type channel selection display unit, and often display the names of all patients to be managed by their full names. Also, many individual corridor lights installed at the entrance and exit of hospital rooms display the full name of the patient in the hospital room.

However, nowadays, the Personal Information Protection Law has been enacted, and the nurse call system is also trying to avoid displaying the patient's personal information, especially the name, and a nurse call system that responds to this movement will be proposed. It has become.

For example, Patent Document 1 describes an information display device that can display patient information limited to a called patient on the condition of screen touch.

Patent Document 2 describes an individual corridor lamp with a privacy protection function that can hide patient information except when necessary with a privacy protection cover.

Patent Literature 3 describes a nurse call system in which not only a patient name but also various types of patient information can be displayed in individual patient display areas arranged in rows and columns of a touch panel display unit.

JP 200621029 A Japanese Patent Laid-Open No. 2004-94764 JP 2004-304552 A

According to the inventions described in Patent Document 1 and Patent Document 2, in the standby state, patient information is not displayed, and only when a specific operation is performed such as lifting the privacy protection cover by hand or touching the screen, Patient information can be displayed.

That is, according to the inventions described in Patent Document 1 and Patent Document 2, a certain blinding effect is recognized in that patient information such as a patient name is not seen by a visitor or the like traveling in a hospital room corridor.

This blindfold effect is inconvenient for medical staff such as nurses. That is, under normal conditions, patient information is not displayed on the individual corridor lamps. When you want to check, you need to move to the point just before the individual corridor lamp and perform troublesome operations such as screen touch.

It is an object of the present invention to provide a nurse call system that eliminates the inconvenience of medical staff accompanying such non-display of patient information and is excellent in terms of protecting patient information.

The present invention is characterized in that a nominal patient name display area is provided in each of the individual display portions of the nurse call master and / or the individual corridor lamp.

In the present invention, in the nominal patient name display area, the surname in the name of the nurse in charge composed of the surname and the surname and the first name in the patient name composed of the surname and the surname are automatically combined and displayed. It is characterized by this.

Furthermore, the present invention is characterized in that the name of the team in charge and the name of the patient are automatically combined and displayed in the nominal patient name display area.

As described above, the present invention includes a nominal patient name display area, in which the surname in the name of the nurse in charge composed of the surname and the surname, the first name in the patient name composed of the surname and the surname, Are automatically combined and displayed, so that the medical staff can easily identify the patient including his / her name by referring to the displayed nominal patient name.

On the other hand, the real name of the patient is not revealed to third parties such as visitors.

In addition, in the nominal patient name display area, the surname of the nurse in charge and the patient's first name can be combined, or the name of the team in charge can be combined with the patient's first name. Or, the team in charge can be grasped at the same time, which is effective in improving the efficiency of nursing work.

Examples of the present invention will be described below. FIG. 1 is a system configuration diagram of a nurse call system in one embodiment of the present invention.

In the figure, 1 is a nurse call master unit having a touch panel type liquid crystal screen 1a, 2 is a plurality of individual corridor lights provided with a liquid crystal screen 2a and installed at the entrance of a hospital room, 3 is a patient's It is a nurse call handset installed at the bedside. The nurse call call master unit 1, the individual corridor lamp 2, and the nurse call slave unit 3 are connected to each other by a wired line.

FIG. 2 is a diagram showing an example of a display screen of the nurse call parent device 1, and shows a state where the patient information of the called patient is popped up on the standby screen. The standby screen includes an operation button area 4 and a patient list display area 5.

In the operation button area 4, a plurality of operation button icons necessary for the nurse call operation are arranged, and a button operation can be performed by touching a required button icon or moving and selecting a mouse cursor. .

The patient list display area 5 shows the layout of the ward and the bed layout of the hospital room, and is displayed in groups by hospital room. Each hospital room zone is composed of a plurality of individual display sections 6, and a nominal patient name display area 6 a is formed in each individual display section 6.

The nominal patient name here is different from the patient's real name and is the common name of the patient used for convenience in nursing work. In the example of the bed of 201-1, the nominal patient name is "Ichiro Haruyama" Become.

The patient's real name corresponding to this nominal patient name is shown in a pop-up window 7 displayed at the time of the call. Referring to the pop-up window 7 in the figure, 8 is the patient's real name “Ichiro Yamada”, 9 is the name of the nurse in charge, “Haruyama”, and 10 is the name of the doctor in charge “Sato”.

By the way, the nominal patient name “Ichiro Haruyama” is a concatenation of the “surname” of the nurse in charge and “Ichiro” obtained by extracting the name part from the patient's real name “Ichiro Yamada”.

The pop-up window 7 is displayed only for the calling patient when called by the patient, and the patient's real name is not displayed in the standby state.

After understanding the above contents, it can be seen from the diagram that the patients in rooms 201 to 203 are all in charge of Haruyama nurses and the persons in rooms 204 to 205 are nurses in summer.

FIG. 3 is an external view showing a screen example of an individual corridor lamp. The liquid crystal screen 2a in the center of the figure has an individual display unit 11 that is displayed by being divided into four according to the bed arrangement in the hospital room, and each individual display unit 11 is provided with a nominal patient name display region 12 respectively. ing. In the nominal patient name display area 12, the above-mentioned nominal patient name is displayed.

The small corner icon is the rescue category display icon 13, and the rescue category is displayed by color.

Reference numeral 14 is a representative lamp that is turned on as a representative when calling, and 15 is a recovery button for recovering the calling state.

When there is a call from the patient, the background color or partition frame of the individual display unit 11 belonging to the called patient blinks, and the representative lamp 14 lights or blinks to notify the call from the patient to the surroundings.

The calling signal is further transmitted from the individual corridor lamp 2 to the nurse call master unit 1. In the nurse call master unit 1, a ringing tone sounds and a pop-up window 7 showing information of the calling patient is displayed.

FIG. 4 is an example of a nominal patient name table stored in the internal memory of the nurse call parent device 1.

The nominal patient name table in the figure is composed of “bed number”, “patient name”, “name of nurse in charge”, and “nominal patient name”.

In this case, the character data of “nominal patient name” is obtained by automatically combining character data of “patient name” and character data of “name of nurse in charge” in accordance with a pre-programmed character string calculation formula. It shall be generated concatenated.

The nominal patient names listed on the standby screen of FIG. 2 are searched using the bed number or patient name as a key in the nominal patient name table of FIG. 4, and the matched nominal patient names are respectively displayed at predetermined positions.

This nominal patient name is simultaneously transmitted to the individual corridor lamp 2 and stored and displayed in the individual corridor lamp 2.

Whether or not to store the nominal patient name conservatively in the individual corridor lamp 2 is a design problem, and only when the nominal patient name is displayed in the individual corridor lamp 2 should be transmitted from the nurse call master unit 1 as needed. Is also possible.

The nominal patient name is displayed only on the standby screen display of the nurse call master unit 1 and the individual corridor lamp 2. In other cases, the full patient name is displayed or output to the printer. It shall be possible.

In the above, an example of creating a nominal patient name by combining the surname of the nurse in charge and the first name in the patient's name has been explained, but the team name and patient name in place of the surname of the nurse in charge are described. To the nominal patient name.

Moreover, in an Example, although a nominal patient name can be displayed on both the nurse call main | base station 1 and the individual corridor lamp 2, according to the actual request of a hospital or a welfare institution, only one is displayed by a nominal patient name, The other may display the patient's real name.

The system block diagram of the nurse call system in one Example of this invention. It is a figure which shows the example of a display screen of a nurse call main | base station. It is an external view which shows the example of a screen of an individual corridor lamp. It is a figure which shows the example of a nominal patient name table.

Explanation of symbols

1 Nurse Call Master Unit 1a LCD Screen 2 Individual Corridor Lamp 2a LCD Screen 3 Nurse Call Slave Unit 4 Operation Button Area 5 Patient List Area 6 Individual Display 6a Nominal Patient Name Display Area 7 Pop-up Window 8 Patient Real Name 9 Name of Nurse 10 Name of doctor in charge 11 Individual display section 12 Nominal patient name display area 13 Relief category display icon 14 Representative lamp 15 Recovery button

Claims (3)

In a nurse call system having a nurse call master unit having an individual display unit and an individual corridor lamp having an individual display unit, the individual display unit of the nurse call master unit and / or the individual display unit of the individual corridor lamp, A nurse call system comprising a nominal patient name display area. In the nominal patient name display area, the surname in the name of the nurse in charge composed of the surname and the surname and the first name in the patient name composed of the surname and the surname are automatically combined and displayed. The nurse call system according to claim 1. 2. The nurse call system according to claim 1, wherein the name of the team in charge and the name in the patient name are automatically combined and displayed in the nominal patient name display area.

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