JP6161118B2 - Nurse call system - Google Patents

Description

  The present invention relates to a nurse call system for calling a nurse or caregiver by a patient or a cared person, and in particular, on the display of the nurse call parent machine for notifying that the patient or cared person has called. The present invention relates to a nurse call system that performs pop-up display.

  In general, a nurse call system is used in hospitals and care facilities. The nurse call system can be used when a patient at a hospital needs help from a nurse or when a caregiver at a care facility needs help from a caregiver (collectively, This system is configured so that a nurse or a caregiver (hereinafter collectively referred to as a health care worker) can be called by operating a call operation unit.

Many nurse call systems include nurse call cordless handsets installed in the vicinity of beds, toilets, and bathrooms in hospital rooms, nurse call master units installed in nurse stations where medical workers are stationed, and rooms such as hospital rooms. It comprises a corridor lamp installed on the corridor side near the entrance, and a controller that performs control related to communication and data transmission / reception. In addition to the above-described configuration, a portable terminal (for example, PHS (Personal Handy phone System) terminal) carried by a medical worker and a PBX (Private
There is also a nurse call system with Branch Exchange. Here, the nurse call slave has a call operation unit.

  Such a nurse call system outputs a call signal from the nurse call slave unit to the nurse call master unit when the patient operates the call operation unit of the nurse call slave unit, and inputs the call signal. It is comprised so that a call may be alert | reported by a machine. Moreover, in the nurse call system provided with the portable terminal and the PBX, the calling is also notified on the portable terminal.

  As a nurse call master unit, there is a board-type unit that combines a tuning section with a lamp such as an LED (light-emitting diode) and a display field for displaying the name of a patient according to the number of patients. Yes. The board-type nurse call parent device is attached to a wall surface of the nurse station, and a medical worker in the nurse station can view information displayed on the board-type nurse call parent device.

  When the call operation unit of the nurse call slave is operated and a call signal is output from the nurse call slave, the nurse call master that has input the call signal is included in the call signal and identifies the nurse call slave. Therefore, the caller (actually a nurse call slave unit) is specified by the slave unit identification information. And the notification of a call is performed by lighting or blinking the lamp | ramp of the channel selection part corresponding to the display column of the patient who is using the specified nurse call cordless handset. Call notification is performed not only by lighting or blinking of the lamp of the tuning unit but also by sound output from a speaker.

  By the way, as a nurse call parent machine, not only the above-described board type but also a desktop type installed on a desktop is known. In addition, patient information such as the patient's name is displayed on the display according to the arrangement of the hospital room and bed, and when the call is made by the nurse call cordless handset, the patient information of the calling patient is displayed as a pop-up image. 2. Description of the Related Art A nurse call system including a PC (personal computer) type nurse call parent device that displays on a display is known. In the above pop-up image, in addition to patient information for identifying the patient who made the call such as the patient's room (including the bed number) and the patient's name, information indicating the call type, the rescue category and infectious disease The patient information such as the presence / absence of the patient, the medical subject, and the nurse in charge may be displayed together.

  Further, as described above, when a call notification is made by the nurse call parent device, a medical worker who notices the call needs to respond to the call notification. For this reason, the nurse call master unit is provided with a handset for responding to a call notification. When a caller is alerted and a health care worker off-hooks the handset, call alerting stops and the nurse call master and the nurse call slave (or the room where the nurse call slave is installed) A communication path is formed between them. Here, since the nurse call cordless handset (or hospital room) is provided with a speaker and a microphone for calling, a call can be made between the patient and a medical worker. Further, when the portable terminal and the PBX are used in the nurse call system, the medical staff can respond to the call by operating the portable terminal.

  By the way, since a plurality of nurse call slave units are connected to the nurse call master unit, it is conceivable that calls from the plurality of nurse call slave units overlap before the nurse call master unit makes a response. Therefore, a plurality of pop-up images are displayed on the display in the PC type nurse call parent device. Here, when calls from multiple nurse call slaves are duplicated, among the multiple pop-up images, the pop-up image of the nurse call slave that made the call first is placed above, and the nurse that made the call next A technique is known in which a pop-up image of a Cole handset is arranged below (for example, Patent Document 1).

  In addition, when a call with different call priority (for example, emergency call and normal call) or a call with different patient status (for example, a serious condition and a non-serious condition) is duplicated, A technique for displaying a pop-up image in preference to a call by a serious patient is also known (for example, Patent Document 2).

JP 2010-51545 A JP 2010-51544 A

  In the technology described in Patent Document 1 and Patent Document 2 described above, when calls from a plurality of nurse call slaves installed in the same hospital room overlap, the pop-up images also overlap. There was a problem that it could not be displayed on the display.

  The present invention has been made in order to solve such a problem. When a call is made by a nurse call cordless handset, patient information of a patient who has made the call is displayed on a display as a pop-up image. The purpose is to increase the number of pop-up images displayed on the display as much as possible when calls are duplicated.

  In order to solve the above-described problem, in the present invention, when a call is made, a pop-up image including information for identifying the patient who has made the call is displayed on the display of the nurse call master unit in the first area. In the nurse call system to be displayed, when a plurality of calls overlap, the patients in the same room are displayed together in a pop-up image displayed in the first area.

  According to the present invention configured as described above, when a plurality of calls from the same patient room overlap, the patient information on the patient in the same patient room with the same first area as the area of the pop-up image in the case of a single patient. Is displayed as a pop-up image, the display area of the pop-up image can be omitted, and the number of pop-up images displayed on the display can be increased as much as possible.

It is a block diagram which shows the structural example of the nurse call system by this embodiment. It is a figure which shows the example of the display screen of the nurse call main | base station of this embodiment.

  Hereinafter, an embodiment of the present invention will be described with reference to the drawings. Here, a nurse call system for nursing support installed in a hospital will be described as an example, but the nurse call system of the present embodiment is not limited to that installed in a hospital. For example, the present invention can also be applied when installed in a nursing facility. FIG. 1 is a block diagram illustrating a configuration example of a nurse call system according to the present embodiment. In FIG. 1, reference numeral 1 denotes a nurse call cordless handset, which is installed in the vicinity of a patient's bed in a hospital room and is used when a patient calls a medical worker. Here, the nurse call cordless handset 1 is installed for each patient. In addition, at least one room or more is a multi-bed room where a plurality of patients are present, and a plurality of nurse call slaves 1 are installed. The nurse call handset 1 includes a handset control unit 2, a call operation unit 3, and a handset interface 4.

  Reference numeral 10 denotes a nurse call master unit, which is installed in a nurse station or the like where a medical worker is resident, and is used when the medical worker answers a call from a patient. Here, the nurse call parent device 10 includes a control unit 11, an interface 12, a storage unit 13, a display 14, a speaker 15, a selection operation unit 16, and a response operation unit 17. A corridor lamp and a controller (both not shown) are connected between the nurse call slave unit 1 and the nurse call master unit 10. The corridor lamp displays the name of the patient in the hospital room and also indicates that the call has been made when the patient in the hospital room calls. The controller controls communication between the nurse call slave unit 1 and the nurse call master unit 10.

  In addition to the above-described configuration, the mobile terminal carried by the medical staff and the PBX can be provided, so that even the mobile terminal carried by the medical staff can respond to the call from the patient.

  First, each component of the nurse call handset 1 will be described. The subunit | mobile_unit control part 2 is for controlling each component of the nurse call subunit | mobile_unit 1 so that it may mention later, and is comprised by CPU (Central Processing Unit) etc. The call operation unit 3 is for operation when a patient calls a medical worker, and includes a call button and the like.

  The slave unit interface 4 is for connecting the nurse call slave unit 1 and the nurse call master unit 10 for communication. The patient operates the call operation unit 3 when he / she wants to call a medical worker. Then, the subunit | mobile_unit control part 2 produces | generates a calling signal. Here, the call signal includes slave unit identification information for identifying the nurse call slave unit 1 from other nurse call slave units 1. Further, the slave unit identification information includes information for identifying a hospital room in which the nurse call slave unit 1 is installed and other hospital rooms. Therefore, information such as a bed number is used as the slave unit identification information. The call signal generated in this way is output to the nurse call parent device 10 when the child device control unit 2 controls the child device interface 4.

  Next, each component of the nurse call parent machine 10 will be described. The control unit 11 is for controlling each component of the nurse call parent device 10 as will be described later, and includes a CPU or the like. The interface 12 is for connecting the nurse call parent device 10 and the nurse call child device 1 for communication. Here, the base unit interface 12 inputs the call signal output from the nurse call handset 1.

  The storage unit 13 includes slave unit identification information (bed number) of the nurse call slave unit 1 and patient information (for example, a patient) for identifying a patient who uses the nurse call slave unit 1 specified by the slave unit identification information. Are stored in advance in association with each other. The storage unit 13 stores image data for generating a screen displayed on the display 14 described later.

  The display 14 is configured by a display device, and as shown in FIG. 2, displays a list of hospital rooms and beds in which each patient is located, and a pop-up image when the call is made by the nurse call handset 1. Is displayed. The display 14 uses image data stored in the storage unit 13 and patient information stored in the storage unit 13 when performing these displays. The speaker 15 is for outputting a notification sound indicating a call from a patient.

  Here, the following two types of pop-up images displayed on the display 14 exist. The first is a case where calls from the same hospital room do not overlap due to the handset identification information included in the call signal. In this case, one patient information is displayed in the first area in one pop-up image (see FIG. 2A). Here, the first area has such a size that a plurality of areas can be displayed on the display 14. The second is a case where calls from the same room are duplicated due to the handset identification information included in the call signal. In this case, two or more pieces of patient information are collectively displayed in the first area in one pop-up image (see FIG. 2B).

  When calls from different hospital rooms are duplicated, as shown in FIG. 2, the ones that have been called first or the ones with high priority determined by the patient's condition are displayed above. Here, for calls from the same hospital room, since pop-up images are displayed together, they are displayed at positions corresponding to any of the calls.

  The selection operation unit 16 is operated to select a call to respond when a plurality of pop-up images are displayed on the display 14 due to overlapping calls from a plurality of nurse call slave units 1. . Here, when the display 14 is a touch panel, a selection operation is performed on the display 14. When the display 14 is not a touch panel, a selection operation is performed using an operation key or the like.

  In the response operation unit 17, a pop-up image indicating a call from the patient is displayed on the display 14, the speaker 15 outputs a notification sound indicating the call from the patient, and a desired pop-up image is selected by the selection operation unit 16. Used by the health care professional in response to a call from the desired patient. Here, the response operation unit 17 includes a handset and a hook switch (both not shown), and the hook switch can respond by detecting an off-hook of the handset.

  When the response operation unit 17 is operated, the control unit 11 erases the pop-up image selected by the selection operation unit 16 from the pop-up images displayed on the display 14 and is output from the speaker 15. The notification sound is temporarily stopped. Then, a communication path is formed between the nurse call parent device 10 and the nurse call child device 1 used by the patient specified by the selected pop-up image.

  If the pop-up image is not selected by the selection operation unit 16, the control unit 11 deletes the pop-up image displayed at the top of the pop-up images displayed on the display 14, and the speaker 15. The notification sound output from is stopped. Then, a communication path is formed between the nurse call parent device 10 and the nurse call child device 1 used by the patient specified by the deleted pop-up image.

  Here, the timing at which the control unit 11 erases the pop-up image displayed on the display 14 may be the timing at which the hook switch constituting the response operation unit 17 detects the off-hook of the handset, or the hook switch It may be the timing when the on-hook is detected again. On the other hand, the timing at which the control unit 11 temporarily stops the notification sound output from the speaker 15 is the timing at which the hook switch constituting the response operation unit 17 detects the handset off-hook.

  Further, when the hook switch constituting the response operation unit 17 detects the on-hook of the handset again, the control unit 11 causes the speaker 15 to output the notification sound again because no response is made to another call.

  Note that when there are no duplicate calls from a plurality of nurse call slave units 1, that is, when there is only one call from the nurse call slave unit 1, one pop-up image is displayed on the display 14. The response operation unit 17 can respond without selecting the pop-up image by the selection operation unit 16.

  The operation of the nurse call system configured as described above will be described with reference to FIG. First, when the patient “Taro 802” and the patient “Taro Yamada” of the bed number “802-3” operate the call operation unit 3 of the nurse call slave unit 1, the slave unit control unit 2 generates a call signal, The interface 4 outputs a call signal to the nurse call parent device 10. On the other hand, in the nurse call parent device 10, the interface 12 inputs the call signal, and the control unit 11 refers to the storage unit 13 and stores the patient information stored in association with the child device identification information included in the call signal. get. Moreover, the control part 11 analyzes this subunit | mobile_unit identification information, and determines whether the call from the same hospital room is duplicated.

  Here, the control unit 11 determines that calls from the same room are not duplicated, and the slave unit identification information extracted from the call signal, the acquired patient information, and the image data stored in the storage unit 13 Is used to generate a pop-up image and display it on the display 14. Moreover, the control part 11 operates the speaker 15, and the speaker 15 outputs a notification sound.

  In this state, when the patient “room 801” and the patient “Take Aoki” of the bed number “801-1” operates the call operation unit 3 of the nurse call slave unit 1, the slave unit control unit 2 generates a call signal, The slave unit interface 4 outputs a call signal to the nurse call master unit 10. On the other hand, in the nurse call parent device 10, the interface 12 inputs the call signal, and the control unit 11 refers to the storage unit 13 and stores the patient information stored in association with the child device identification information included in the call signal. get. Moreover, the control part 11 analyzes this subunit | mobile_unit identification information, and determines whether the call from the same hospital room is duplicated.

  Here, the control unit 11 determines that calls from the same room are not duplicated, and the slave unit identification information extracted from the call signal, the acquired patient information, and the image data stored in the storage unit 13 Is used to generate a pop-up image, and is displayed immediately below the pop-up image (802-3 “Taro Yamada”) already displayed on the display 14.

  In this state, when the patient “room 803” and the patient “Nana Kubo” of the bed number “803-3” operate the call operation unit 3 of the nurse call slave unit 1, the slave unit control unit 2 generates a call signal, The slave unit interface 4 outputs a call signal to the nurse call master unit 10. On the other hand, in the nurse call parent device 10, the interface 12 inputs the call signal, and the control unit 11 refers to the storage unit 13 and stores the patient information stored in association with the child device identification information included in the call signal. get. Moreover, the control part 11 analyzes this subunit | mobile_unit identification information, and determines whether the call from the same hospital room is duplicated.

  Here, the control unit 11 determines that calls from the same room are not duplicated, and the slave unit identification information extracted from the call signal, the acquired patient information, and the image data stored in the storage unit 13 Are used to generate a pop-up image, and are displayed immediately below the pop-up image already displayed on the display 14 (801-1 “Takeshi Aoki”).

  In this state, when the patient “room 804” and the patient “Goto Matsuyama” of the bed number “804-4” operate the call operation unit 3 of the nurse call slave unit 1, the slave unit control unit 2 generates a call signal, The slave unit interface 4 outputs a call signal to the nurse call master unit 10. On the other hand, in the nurse call parent device 10, the interface 12 inputs the call signal, and the control unit 11 refers to the storage unit 13 and stores the patient information stored in association with the child device identification information included in the call signal. get. Moreover, the control part 11 analyzes this subunit | mobile_unit identification information, and determines whether the call from the same hospital room is duplicated.

  Here, the control unit 11 determines that calls from the same room are not duplicated, and the slave unit identification information extracted from the call signal, the acquired patient information, and the image data stored in the storage unit 13 Are used to generate a pop-up image, and are displayed directly below the pop-up image (803-3 “Nana Kubo”) already displayed on the display 14 (see FIG. 2A).

  Thus, in the state shown in FIG. 2 (a), when the patient “room 802” and the patient “Jin Sato” in the bed number “802-2” operates the call operation unit 3 of the nurse call handset 1, The control unit 2 generates a call signal, and the handset interface 4 outputs the call signal to the nurse call base unit 10. On the other hand, in the nurse call parent device 10, the interface 12 inputs the call signal, and the control unit 11 refers to the storage unit 13 and stores the patient information stored in association with the child device identification information included in the call signal. get. Moreover, the control part 11 analyzes this subunit | mobile_unit identification information, and determines whether the call from the same hospital room is duplicated.

  Here, the control unit 11 determines that calls from the same patient room are duplicated, and stores the child device identification information included in the call signal input from the duplicated patient room, each acquired patient information, and storage A pop-up image is generated using the image data stored in the unit 13 and displayed on the display 14. At this time, the child device identification information and patient information of the patient “Jin Sato” in the patient room “802” and the child device identification information and patient information of the patient “Taro Yamada” in the same patient room “802” are the same pop-up image. Are displayed together. Here, the size of the pop-up image is the same first area as the size of the pop-up image composed of the child device identification information and patient information of one patient (see FIG. 2B).

  Thus, in a state where the calls are duplicated, the medical staff selects the patient to be responded first by the selection operation unit 16 and operates the response operation unit 17 to respond.

  As described above in detail, according to the present embodiment, when a plurality of calls are duplicated, information for specifying the patient who has made the call pops up on the display 14 of the nurse call parent device 10 in the first area. When displaying as an image, patients in the same room are displayed together in a pop-up image displayed in the first area.

  As a result, when multiple calls from the same room overlap, the patient information for the patient in the same room is displayed as a pop-up image in the same first area as the area of the pop-up image in the case of a single room. The display area of the pop-up image can be omitted, and the number of pop-up images displayed on the display 14 can be increased as much as possible.

  In the above-described embodiment, the display 14 displays two pieces of slave unit identification information and patient information as pop-up images. However, the present invention is not limited to this. For example, other patient information (for example, relief category, presence / absence of infectious disease, clinical department, nurse in charge, etc.), information indicating a call type, and the like may be displayed as a pop-up image.

  Further, in the above-described embodiment, the nurse call slave device 1 includes the call operation unit 3 configured by a call button, but is not limited thereto. For example, the nurse call cordless handset 1 may be provided with a sensor that detects a predetermined state of the patient, and the cordless handset controller 2 may generate a call signal when the sensor detects the predetermined state of the patient.

  In addition, the said embodiment is only what showed the example in implementation in implementing this invention, and, as a result, the technical scope of this invention should not be interpreted limitedly. In other words, the present invention can be implemented in various forms without departing from the spirit or main features thereof.

DESCRIPTION OF SYMBOLS 1 Nurse call cordless handset 2 Child machine control part 3 Calling operation part 4 Child machine interface 10 Nurse call parent machine 11 Control part 12 Interface 13 Memory | storage part 14 Display 15 Speaker 16 Selection operation part 17 Response operation part

Claims (1)

A call operation unit operated by a patient in a hospital room to call a medical staff, and when the call operation unit is operated, the device is identified as another device and the patient room in which the device is installed A nurse call slave unit comprising: a slave unit control unit that generates a call signal including slave unit identification information for identifying the patient room; and a slave unit interface that outputs the call signal generated by the slave unit control unit; ,
An interface for inputting the call signal from the nurse call slave unit, at least patient information for identifying a patient who is calling, and slave unit identification information of a nurse call slave unit used by the patient A storage unit for storing, a display for performing notification by displaying a pop-up image including the patient information, and a selection operation unit operated to select desired patient information from the pop-up image displayed on the display; The response operation unit operated to respond to the notification and the interface, when the call signal is input from a nurse call slave device , refer to the storage unit and are included in the call signal The patient information stored in association with the slave unit identification information is extracted, and the patient information is pop-up image of the first area. When the interface receives the call signal from a plurality of nurse call slaves, the patient information stored in association with the slave unit identification information included in the call signal is referred to the storage unit. A nurse call child installed in the same hospital room is determined by comparing the child machine identification information to determine whether there is child machine identification information of a nurse call child machine installed in the same patient room. When it is determined that the slave unit identification information of the machine exists, the patient information of the patient in the same room is displayed as a pop-up image of the first area, while the nurse call handset installed in the same room is displayed. When it is determined that there is no identification information, a nurse call parent device including a control unit that displays each patient information as a pop-up image of the first area,
Having a nurse call system.

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