JP6985190B2 - Nurse call system - Google Patents

Description

The present invention relates to a nurse call system.

Conventionally, a nurse call system has been widely used in which a nurse call master unit installed in a nurse station is notified when a call is made from a nurse call slave unit installed in each bed. In such a nurse call system, the bed number and patient name of the caller are displayed on the display unit in the called nurse call master unit or the like, and the nurse can recognize and answer the caller by the display.
On the other hand, the nurse carries a mobile phone for nurses who can answer the call from the nurse call handset and regularly patrols the hospital room of the inpatient in charge.

Japanese Unexamined Patent Publication No. 2014-087524

However, if the number of inpatients in charge is large, it may take a considerable amount of time to complete the patrol, and the patrol work that needs to be performed many times a day is a burden on the nursing work. ..

The present invention has been made in view of such problems, and an object of the present invention is to provide a nurse call system capable of confirming the state of an inpatient without visiting a hospital room.

In order to solve the above problems, the inventor of the present application proposes the following nurse call system.

The nurse call system of the present invention is a nurse call handset provided for each bed in the hospital room for an inpatient to call a nurse, and a nurse installed at a nurse station to answer a call from the nurse call handset. A plate slave unit to which a call master unit and a nurse call slave unit are connected and installed near the bed in the hospital room, a bedside monitor provided for each bed in the hospital room and capable of displaying patient-related information, and a nurse call slave unit. It is equipped with multiple nurse mobile phones carried by nurses to answer calls from the machine, a hospital room camera that can image inpatients on the bed, and a control device that controls calls and communications between devices. ing. In this nurse call system, at least one of the nurse call master unit and the nurse's mobile phone is provided with a patrol start means in which a patrol start operation is performed when the nurse starts the patrol, and the control device is , The device in which the patrol start operation is performed by activating the hospital room camera associated with the inpatient registered in the patrol destination in response to the patrol start operation from any device provided with the patrol start means. The control to transmit the image captured by the hospital room camera is executed.
According to the nurse call system having such a configuration, the hospital room camera is activated by the nurse or the like performing the patrol start operation from the nurse call master unit or the nurse's mobile phone provided with the patrol start means, and the hospital room camera is activated. The image captured by the nurse call is transmitted to the nurse call master unit or the nurse's mobile phone where the patrol start operation is performed. Then, the state of the inpatient can be confirmed by checking the image captured by the hospital room camera on the nurse call master unit or the nurse's mobile phone on which the patrol start operation is performed, so that the hospitalization in charge of the nurse can be confirmed. The need to visit the patient's room many times a day can be reduced, and the burden of nursing work can be reduced.

If the hospital room camera is activated by the patrol start operation, any device provided with the patrol start means may be the hospital room camera, the nurse call slave unit, the plate slave unit, or the bedside monitor. The configuration may be such that a call can be made with any one device.
According to the nurse call system having such a configuration, the nurse can talk with the inpatient while checking the state of the inpatient on the nurse call master unit or the nurse's mobile phone, so that the physical condition is confirmed. It is possible to grasp the condition of the inpatient more.

When the patrol start operation is performed from any device provided with the patrol start means, the control device activates the hospital room camera, the nurse call slave unit, and the plate slave unit before starting the imaging. Alternatively, the device of any one of the bedside monitors may be controlled to notify the inpatient that the patrol is to be started.
According to the nurse call system having such a configuration, it is possible to notify the inpatient that the patrol using the hospital room camera is about to start, so that the privacy of the inpatient can be improved.

The device of any one of the patient room camera, the nurse call slave unit, the plate slave unit, and the bedside monitor is equipped with a patrol permission means for permitting the activation of the hospital room camera accompanying the patrol start operation, and the control device is a patrol. It may be configured to execute the control to activate the hospital room camera when the patrol permission operation is performed by the inpatient who has been notified from any one device provided with the permission means.
According to the nurse call system having such a configuration, the hospital room camera is activated when the inpatient performs a patrol permission operation, so that the privacy of the inpatient can be further improved.

It further has a vital information acquisition means for acquiring inpatient vital information and a state determination means for determining whether the inpatient is sleeping from the vital information acquired by the vital information acquisition means, and the control device determines the status. When the means determines that the inpatient is sleeping, the inpatient may be configured to perform control to activate the hospital room camera even if the patrol permission operation is not performed.
According to the nurse call system having such a configuration, the patrol can be smoothly performed when the inpatient is sleeping.

Further, the control device may be configured to execute control to activate the hospital room camera during a predetermined time zone even if the inpatient does not perform the patrol permission operation.
The predetermined time zone may be any time zone depending on the setting, but may be a time zone from when the lights are turned off to the morning, for example, from 22:00 to 7:00. According to the nurse call system having such a configuration, it is possible to smoothly patrol the time zone when most inpatients are considered to be sleeping.

According to the present invention, it is possible to provide a nurse call system that can confirm the state of an inpatient without visiting a hospital room.

The figure which shows the whole structure of a nurse call system A. The figure which shows the nurse call handset 1 and the plate handset 2 of a nurse call system A. The functional block diagram which shows the structure of the plate slave unit 2 of a nurse call system A. The functional block diagram which shows the structure of the bedside monitor 3 of the nurse call system A. The functional block diagram which shows the structure of the corridor light 6 of the nurse call system A. The functional block diagram which shows the structure of the nurse call master unit 7 of the nurse call system A. The functional block diagram which shows the structure of the controller 8 of a nurse call system A. The figure which shows the display screen of the mobile phone 9 for nurses. The figure which shows the display screen of the monitor 31 of a bedside monitor 3. The figure which shows the display screen of the mobile phone 9 for nurses. The figure which shows the display screen of the mobile phone 9 for nurses.

Hereinafter, preferred embodiments of the nurse call system of the present invention will be described in detail with reference to the drawings.

FIG. 1 is a block diagram of a nurse call system A according to an embodiment of the present invention.
As shown in this figure, in the nurse call system A, a nurse call handset 1 provided for each bed in the hospital room for an inpatient to call a nurse is connected to the nurse call handset 1 in the hospital room. A plate slave unit 2 installed on the wall surface near the bed, a bedside monitor 3 provided for each bed in the hospital room and capable of displaying patient-related information, an electronic lock 4 provided on the door of the hospital room, and on the bed. A hospital room camera 5 capable of capturing an image of an inpatient, a corridor light 6 installed on a corridor wall near the hospital room, a nurse call master unit 7 installed at a nurse station to answer a call from a nurse call slave unit 1, and a nurse call master unit 7. A controller 8 that controls each device such as a nurse call slave unit 1, a hospital room camera 5, a corridor light 6, a nurse call master unit 7, a nurse mobile phone 9 carried by a nurse, and an inpatient's hospitalization. It is equipped with a patient mobile phone 10.
Further, this nurse call system A is connected to a controller 8 and manages communication with a nurse mobile phone 9 or an inpatient mobile phone 10 (hereinafter referred to as IP-PBX) 11 and nursing. The base station 12 that performs wireless communication between the mobile phone 9 for teachers or the mobile phone 10 for inpatients and the IP-PBX 11, the nurse call server 13 that stores various data of inpatients, and the location information of the nurse. It includes a location management server 14 for management, a common area camera 15 installed in a common area, and an IEMS (Indoor Messaging System) transmitter 16.

The plate slave unit 2 to which the nurse call slave unit 1 is connected is connected to the corridor light 6 via a transmission line, and is connected to the bedside monitor 3, the electronic lock 4, the hospital room camera 5, the corridor light 6, and the nurse call master unit. 7. The controller 8, the IP-PBX 11, the nurse call server 13, the location management server 14, and the common area camera 15 are each connected to a LAN 18 arranged in the hospital via the HUB 17.
Further, the IP-PBX 11 is connected to the base station 12 via a transmission line.
The base station 12 is appropriately set at a plurality of locations in the facility.

As shown in FIG. 2, the nurse call slave unit 1 has a call button 1a for calling a nurse and is connected to the plate slave unit 2.

As shown in FIG. 3, the plate slave unit 2 includes a nurse call slave unit connection unit 21 connected to the nurse call slave unit 1, a microphone 22 and a speaker 23 for talking, and a slave unit voice processing unit that processes voice signals. 24, it has a slave unit CPU 25 that controls the plate slave unit 2, a slave unit communication IF 26 that communicates with the corridor light 6, and a recovery button 27 that can stop the notification operation and the like.

The bedside monitor 3 is connected to a vital measuring device (not shown) as a vital information acquisition means for measuring vital information of an inpatient, and as shown in FIG. 4, a monitor 31 and a monitor 31 displaying various information. Side monitor image processing unit 32 that processes the image to be displayed on, operation unit 33 consisting of a touch panel that performs various operations, microphone 34 and speaker 35 for talking, side monitor audio processing unit 36 that processes audio signals, bedside monitor The side monitor CPU 37 that controls 3, the side monitor first communication IF 38 that communicates with the controller 8, the recovery button 39 that can stop the notification operation and turn on / off the liquid crystal display, and the side monitor second that communicates with the vital measurement device. A state in which it is determined whether the patrol start signal is received from the communication IF 40 and the controller 8 in a predetermined time zone set in advance, and whether the inpatient is sleeping from the vital information acquired by the vital measuring device. It has a determination unit 49.
In the present embodiment, it is assumed that the state determination unit 49 is set as a predetermined time zone from the time when the light is turned off until the morning (for example, from 22:00 to 7:00).

As shown in FIG. 5, the corridor light 6 includes a call indicator light 41 that emits and displays a call occurrence from an inpatient, a microphone 42 and a speaker 43 for making a call, a corridor light sound processing unit 44 that processes a voice signal, and a corridor. Corridor light CPU45 that controls the light 6, corridor light first communication IF46 for communicating with the nurse call master unit 7, etc., recovery button 47 for stopping the notification operation, and corridor light for communicating with the plate slave unit 2. It has a second communication IF48.

As shown in FIG. 6, the nurse call master unit 7 processes a handset 61 for answering a call from the nurse call slave unit 1, a speaker 62 that sounds an alarm sound, and a voice signal, and also processes an alarm sound. Master unit sound processing unit 63, master unit monitor 64 that displays various information, master unit video processing unit 65 that processes video to be displayed on the master unit monitor 64, operation unit 66 consisting of a touch panel that performs various operations, nurse call parent It has a master unit CPU 67 that controls the entire unit 7, a master unit communication IF 68 that communicates with other devices such as the controller 8, and an information storage unit 69 that stores various information.

As shown in FIG. 7, the controller 8 is a mobile phone / nurse-related table 71 that associates a nurse with a nurse's mobile phone 9 carried by the nurse, and a nurse / a nurse that associates a nurse with an inpatient. It has an inpatient-related table 72, an information storage unit 73 for storing various information, a controller CPU 74 for controlling the controller 8, and a controller communication IF 75 for communicating with other devices such as a corridor light 6.
The information storage unit 73 includes a patient-related information storage unit 73a that stores patient-related information.
In this patient-related information storage unit 73a, patient information such as the name and age of the inpatient, nursing classification and medical treatment subject of the inpatient, nursing information of the doctor in charge, etc., the slave unit ID of the nurse call slave unit 1, and the plate slave unit ID, bedside monitor ID, bed number, hospital room camera ID, inpatient examination, schedule information such as surgery, mobile phone information of the inpatient mobile phone 10 owned by the inpatient, and the like are stored. These information are input by operating the nurse call master unit 7.

The mobile phone 9 for nurses and the mobile phone 10 for inpatients are multifunctional terminals having a mobile phone function, and can be used by installing predetermined application software on a device called a smartphone, for example.
The nurse mobile phone 9 may be any as long as it can answer a call from the nurse call slave unit 1.
The nurse mobile phone 9 constitutes a position identification system together with the IMES transmitter 16 and the position management server 14, and the nurse mobile phone 9 receives GPS satellite radio waves to identify its own position. , A GPS communication unit (not shown) that adds its own ID to the specified position information and transmits it is used.
As shown in FIG. 8, the nurse mobile phone 9 includes a display unit 51 composed of a touch panel, and a patrol start button 51a for the nurse to start a patrol by a predetermined operation by the nurse is a display unit. It is displayed on 51.

The IMES transmitter 16 is installed at an appropriate position in a ward or a hospital, for example, in each hospital room, nurse station, operating room, waiting room, discussion room, corridor, etc., and its own position information is in the same radio wave format as GPS radio waves. It is always delivered using the radio signal of.
Then, the GPS communication unit built in the mobile phone 9 for nurses receives the position information distributed by the nearby IMES transmitter 16 among the IMES transmitters 16, grasps its own position, and adds an ID. The location information grasped in this way is periodically transmitted to the location management server 14. The position information transmitted by the nurse mobile phone 9 is received by the base station 12 as in the case of a normal call signal, transmitted to the position management server 14 via the exchange 11 and the LAN 18, and stored. In this way, it is possible to construct a position specifying system for grasping the current position of the nurse mobile phone 9.
When a nurse is called from the nurse call slave unit 1, the controller 8 makes a call to the position management server 14 with reference to the mobile phone / nurse-related table 71 and the nurse / inpatient-related table 72. Among the nurses associated with the inpatients, the nurses who are close to the location of the inpatient's nurse call handset 1 are selected, and the nurse's mobile phone 9 is notified of the call.

The common area camera 15 is appropriately provided in a common area in a ward or a hospital, for example, a common area such as a corridor, a waiting room, or a lounge on each floor. The image captured by the common unit camera 15 and the hospital room camera 5 is configured to be appropriately displayed on the master unit monitor 64 by operating the operation unit 66 of the nurse call master unit 7.

The operation of the nurse call system A configured as described above will be described below.
However, the call of the nurse from the nurse call slave unit 1, the alarm operation of the nurse call master unit 7 and the nurse's mobile phone 9 that received the call, and the response operation by the nurse call master unit 7 or the nurse's mobile phone 9 Is the same as the conventional one, so the description thereof is omitted. Here, the operation when the nurse performs the patrol start operation from the nurse's mobile phone 9 will be described.
In this embodiment, it is assumed that the vital information of the inpatient is always measured by the vital measuring device.

When the nurse who is about to start the patrol touches the patrol start button 51a of the nurse's mobile phone 9, the controller 8 controls the mobile phone / nurse-related table 71, the nurse / inpatient-related table 72, and the patient-related information. With reference to the storage unit 73a, the inpatient to be the patrol destination and the bedside monitor 3 of the inpatient are identified, and the bedside monitor 3 of the inpatient to be the patrol destination indicates that the patrol is about to be started. Send a start signal.
When there are a plurality of inpatients to be patrol destinations, in the present embodiment, the patrol start signal is transmitted to the bedside monitor 3 of one inpatient selected by the controller 8, but it is controlled. Under the control of the machine 8, a plurality of inpatients to be patrol destinations are displayed on the nurse's mobile phone 9, and the nurse can select the inpatient to be the patrol destination by the nurse's mobile phone 9. good. In this case, the patrol start signal is transmitted to the bedside monitor 3 of the inpatient selected by the nurse's mobile phone 9.

When the bedside monitor 3 receives the patrol start signal, it is determined by the state determination unit 49 whether or not it is in a predetermined time zone preset by the state determination unit 49 under the control of the side monitor CPU 37.
When it is not a predetermined time zone, the state determination unit 49 determines whether or not the inpatient is sleeping from the vital information measured by the vital measuring device.

When the state determination unit 49 determines that the inpatient is not sleeping, under the control of the side monitor CPU37, as shown in FIG. 9, "The patrol by the hospital room camera is started. The patrol is permitted to start. A message prompting permission to activate the hospital room camera 5 with the start of the patrol, such as "Please.", Is displayed on the monitor 31, and a voice message having the same content is played from the speaker 35. Further, under the control of the side monitor CPU 37, a timer (not shown) is started, and a permission button 33a for permitting the activation of the hospital room camera 5 is displayed on the operation unit 33.
The notification prompting the permission to activate the hospital room camera 5 accompanying the start of such patrol may be configured to display a message on the monitor 31 together with a notification sound, or may be configured to be performed only by a voice message.

When the permission button 33a is touched by the inpatient within the preset time, the camera activation permission signal is transmitted from the bedside monitor 3 to the controller 8 under the control of the side monitor CPU 37.
Upon receiving the camera activation permission signal, the controller 8 refers to the patient-related information storage unit 73a to identify the hospital room camera 5 associated with the inpatient to be patrol destination, and activates the specified hospital room camera 5. , The image captured by the hospital room camera 5 is sent to the nurse's mobile phone 9 where the patrol start operation is performed together with the predetermined inpatient information (for example, the inpatient's name, room number, bed number, nursing information, doctor in charge, etc.). Perform control to send.
As a result, as shown in FIG. 10, the image captured by the hospital room camera 5 is displayed together with the predetermined inpatient information on the display unit 51 of the nurse's mobile phone 9 in which the patrol start operation is performed.
According to the nurse call system A having such a configuration, the nurse can confirm the state of the inpatient by confirming the image captured by the hospital room camera 5 with the nurse's mobile phone 9. It is possible to reduce the need to visit the hospital room of the inpatient in charge to check the patient's condition many times a day, and it is possible to reduce the burden of nursing work.
Further, when the permission button 33a is displayed on the operation unit 33, the hospital room camera 5 is activated when the patrol permission operation is performed by the inpatient, so that the privacy of the inpatient can be improved.

The controller 8 also makes a call between the nurse's mobile phone 9 on which the patrol start operation is performed and the inpatient's bedside monitor 3 when the hospital room camera 5 is activated by the patrol start operation. Performs control to establish the state.
According to the nurse call system A having such a configuration, the nurse can talk with the inpatient while checking the state of the inpatient with the nurse's mobile phone 9, so that the physical condition can be confirmed. , The condition of inpatients can be better understood.

When the nurse finishes confirming the state of the inpatient through the nurse's mobile phone 9, the nurse touches the patrol end button 51b of the display unit 51 of the nurse's mobile phone 9 shown in FIG.
When the patrol end button 51b is touched, the controller 8 stops the hospital room camera 5 associated with the inpatient, and the nurse's mobile phone 9 and the inpatient's bedside monitor 3 for which the patrol start operation is performed. Ends the call state established with.
Further, when there is another inpatient who is the patrol destination, the patrol start signal is transmitted to the bedside monitor 3 of the inpatient who is the patrol destination which has not been performed yet.
If there are no other inpatients to patrol, the patrol ends.

On the other hand, if the permission button 33a is not touched by the inpatient within a preset time, the controller 8 stops the inpatient's patrol without activating the hospital room camera 5. Then, when there is another inpatient who is the patrol destination, the patrol start signal is transmitted to the bedside monitor 3 of the inpatient who is the patrol destination which has not been performed yet.
When the permission button 33a is not touched by the inpatient, the controller 8 controls to transmit a patrol start signal to the bedside monitor 3 of the inpatient after the patrol of the inpatient at another patrol destination is completed. It may be configured to execute, or may be configured to execute the control to display the inpatient information for which the patrol has not been completed on the display unit 51 of the nurse's mobile phone 9.

When the inpatient is determined to be sleeping by the state determination unit 49, a camera activation permission signal is transmitted from the bedside monitor 3 to the controller 8 under the control of the side monitor CPU 37, and the inpatient patrols. Even if the permission operation is not performed, the controller 8 executes the control to activate the hospital room camera 5, and the patrol is started as described above.
According to the nurse call system A having such a configuration, patrol can be smoothly performed when the inpatient is sleeping.

Even when the state determination unit 49 determines that the time zone is currently set in advance, the camera activation permission signal is transmitted from the bedside monitor 3 to the controller 8 under the control of the side monitor CPU 37. Even if the inpatient does not perform the patrol permission operation, the controller 8 executes the control to activate the hospital room camera 5, and the patrol is started as described above.
According to the nurse call system A having such a configuration, it is possible to smoothly perform a patrol during a time period when most inpatients are considered to be sleeping.

When the nurse wants to interrupt the patrol in the middle due to various circumstances, the nurse touches the patrol interruption button 51c of the display unit 51 of the nurse's mobile phone 9 shown in FIG.
When the patrol interruption button 51c is touched, the controller 8 stops the hospital room camera 5 if the hospital room camera 5 is activated, and between the nurse's mobile phone 9 and the inpatient's bedside monitor 3. End the call state established in. Further, even if there is another inpatient who is the patrol destination, the patrol start signal is not transmitted to the bedside monitor 3 of the inpatient who is the patrol destination which has not been performed yet.
Further, when the patrol interruption button 51c is touched, as shown in FIG. 11, the patrol restart button 51d is displayed on the display unit 51 of the nurse mobile phone 9.
The nurse can resume the patrol by touching the patrol restart button 51d. That is, when the patrol restart button 51d is touched, the controller 8 transmits a patrol start signal to the bedside monitor 3 of the inpatient at the patrol destination, which has not yet been performed.

The above-mentioned nurse call system A of the present embodiment has been described as having a configuration in which patrol is started from the nurse mobile phone 9, but the nurse mobile phone provided with a patrol start means such as a patrol start button. The patrol may be started from at least one of 9 or the nurse call master unit 7.

Further, although the nurse call system A of the present embodiment has been described as having the patrol permission means for permitting the activation of the hospital room camera 5 accompanying the patrol start operation, the bedside monitor 3 is not the bedside monitor 3. The hospital room camera 5, the nurse call slave unit 1 or the plate slave unit 2 of the inpatient may be configured to include patrol permission means. Further, in the nurse call system A of the present embodiment, the patrol permission means is described as being the permission button 33a displayed on the operation unit 33, but it may be configured to permit by voice.

On the other hand, the configuration may not be provided with such a patrol permission means, and when the patrol start operation is performed from the nurse mobile phone 9 or the nurse call master unit 7, the controller 8 activates the hospital room camera 5. Control to notify the inpatient of the inpatient that the patrol is started by any one of the device of the hospital room camera 5, the nurse call slave unit 1, the plate slave unit 2, or the bedside monitor 3 before starting the imaging. It may be configured to execute.
The notification of the start of the patrol may be performed by a notification sound such as a knock sound, or may be performed by a voice message such as "The patrol by the nurse will be started. The hospital room camera will be activated." Further, the message may be displayed on the monitor 31 together with these, or may be configured to be performed only by the character message.
As described above, before the controller 8 activates the hospital room camera 5 to start imaging, any one of the hospital room camera 5, the nurse call slave unit 1, the plate slave unit 2, and the bedside monitor 3 is used. In addition, if the nurse call system is configured to execute control to notify the inpatient that the patrol will be started, it is possible to notify the inpatient that the patrol using the hospital room camera 5 will be started from now on. It is possible to improve the privacy of inpatients.

On the other hand, when the controller 8 receives a patrol start operation from any device of the nurse mobile phone 9 or the nurse call master unit 7 provided with the patrol start means such as the patrol start button, the inpatient is notified. It is also possible to execute the control to activate the hospital room camera 5 associated with the inpatient registered in the patrol destination without doing so.

Further, in the controller 8 of the nurse call system A of the present embodiment, when the hospital room camera 5 is activated by the patrol start operation, the nurse mobile phone 9 and the inpatient who have performed the patrol start operation are performed. Although it is configured to establish a call state with the bedside monitor 3, the call state with the hospital room camera 5, the nurse call slave unit 1 or the plate slave unit 2 of the inpatient is established instead of the bedside monitor 3. It may be configured. In the case of a configuration for establishing a call state with the nurse call slave unit 1, the nurse call slave unit 1 needs to be provided with a microphone and a speaker. The same applies when the configuration is such that a call state is established with the hospital room camera 5.
On the other hand, when the hospital room camera 5 is activated by the patrol start operation, the call state between the nurse mobile phone 9 on which the patrol start operation is performed and these devices may not be established. ..

Further, in the nurse call system A of the present embodiment, the bedside monitor 3 is connected to a vital measuring device for measuring vital information of an inpatient, and is predetermined when a patrol start signal is received from the controller 8. Although the state determination unit 49 determines whether it is a time zone or whether the inpatient is sleeping, the controller 8 may determine whether it is a predetermined time zone.

Further, the configuration may not include the state determination unit 49. Specifically, a configuration may be configured in which the vital measurement device is not provided and the vital measurement of the inpatient is not performed. That is, the bedside monitor 3 may not be connected to the vital measuring device, and the state determination unit 49 may not determine whether the inpatient is sleeping, or the patrol start signal may be received from the controller 8 in advance. It may be configured not to determine whether it is a set predetermined time zone.

Further, in the nurse call system A of the present embodiment, the controller 8 is described as having a mobile phone / nurse-related table 71 and a nurse / inpatient-related table 72, but the nurse call master unit 7 and the position management server are described. 14 or another recording device may have any of these.

As described above, in the nurse call system of the present invention, the controller 8 is from any device of the nurse mobile phone 9 or the nurse call master unit 7 provided with the patrol start means such as the patrol start button. In response to the patrol start operation, the hospital room camera 5 associated with the inpatient registered at the patrol destination is activated, and the hospital room camera is attached to the nurse mobile phone 9 or the nurse call master unit 7 on which the patrol start operation is performed. The configuration may be such that the control for transmitting the image captured by 5 is executed, and the others may be configured in any manner. It may be a nurse call system that does not have a position identification system, an electric lock 4, or a mobile phone 10 for inpatients.

A ... Nurse call system, 1 ... Nurse call slave unit, 2 ... Plate slave unit, 3 ... Bedside monitor, 4 ... Electronic lock, 5 ... Hospital room camera, 6 ... Corridor light, 7 ... Nurse call master unit, 8 ... Control device (control device), 9 ... Mobile phone for nurses, 10 ... Mobile phone for inpatients, 11 ... Exchange, 12 ... Base station, 13 ... Nurse call server , 14 ... location management server, 15 ... common area camera, 16 ... IEMS transmitter, 17 ... HUB, 18 ... LAN, 21 ... nurse call slave unit connection, 22, 34, 42 ... microphone , 23, 35, 43 ... Speaker, 24 ... Slave unit voice processing unit, 25 ... Slave unit CPU, 26 ... Slave unit communication IF, 27, 39, 47 ... Recovery button, 31 ... Monitor, 32・ ・ Side monitor video processing unit, 33 ・ ・ Operation unit, 33a ・ ・ Permission button (patrol permission means) 36 ・ ・ Side monitor audio processing unit, 37 ・ ・ Side monitor CPU, 38 ・ ・ Side monitor first communication IF, 40 ... Side monitor 2nd communication IF, 41 ... Call indicator light, 44 ... Corridor light voice processing unit, 45 ... Corridor light CPU, 46 ... Corridor light 1st communication IF, 48 ... Corridor light 2nd Communication IF, 49 ... Status determination unit (status determination means), 61 ... Handset, 62 ... Speaker, 63 ... Master unit audio processing unit, 64 ... Master unit monitor, 65 ... Master unit video processing unit, 66 ... Operation unit, 67 ... Master unit CPU, 68 ... Master unit communication IF, 69 ... Information storage unit, 71 ... Mobile phone / nurse-related table, 72 ... Nurse / inpatient-related table, 73 ... Information storage unit, 73a ... Patient-related information storage unit, 74 ... Monitor CPU, 75 ... Controller communication IF

Claims (6)

A nurse call handset provided for each bed in the hospital room for inpatients to call a nurse,
The nurse call master unit installed in the nurse station to answer the call from the nurse call slave unit,
A plate slave unit to which the nurse call slave unit is connected and installed near the bed in the hospital room,
A bedside monitor that can display patient-related information provided for each bed in the hospital room,
Multiple nurse mobile phones carried by nurses to answer calls from the nurse call handset, and
A hospital room camera that can capture inpatients on the bed,
A control device that controls calls and communications between devices,
It is a nurse call system equipped with
At least one of the nurse call master unit and the nurse's mobile phone is provided with a patrol start means for performing a patrol start operation when the nurse starts the patrol.
The control device receives the patrol start operation from any device provided with the patrol start means, activates the hospital room camera associated with the inpatient registered at the patrol destination, and activates the patrol. A control is executed to transmit an image captured by the hospital room camera to the device on which the start operation is performed.
Nurse call system. When the hospital room camera is activated by performing the patrol start operation, any device provided with the patrol start means is the hospital room camera, the nurse call slave unit, the plate slave unit, or the plate slave unit. It is configured to be able to talk to any one of the bedside monitors.
The nurse call system according to claim 1. When the patrol start operation is performed from any device provided with the patrol start means, the control device activates the hospital room camera to start imaging, and then the hospital room camera and the nurse call child. Control the device of any one of the machine, the plate handset, or the bedside monitor to notify the inpatient that patrol is to be started.
The nurse call system according to claim 1 or 2. The device of any one of the hospital room camera, the nurse call slave unit, the plate slave unit, and the bedside monitor is provided with a patrol permission means for permitting the activation of the hospital room camera accompanying the patrol start operation.
The control device executes control to activate the hospital room camera when the patrol permission operation is performed by the inpatient who has received the notification from any one device provided with the patrol permission means.
The nurse call system according to claim 3. Vital information acquisition means for acquiring vital information of inpatients, and
Further, it has a state determination means for determining whether or not the inpatient is sleeping from the vital information acquired by the vital information acquisition means.
The control device executes control to activate the hospital room camera when the state determination means determines that the inpatient is sleeping, even if the inpatient does not perform the patrol permission operation. The nurse call system described in 4. The control device executes control to activate the hospital room camera at a predetermined time zone even if the patrol permission operation is not performed by the inpatient.
The nurse call system according to claim 4 or 5.

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