NURSE CALL SYSTEM

• US 20170116377A1
• Filed: 02/26/2015
• Published: 04/27/2017
• Est. Priority Date: 03/27/2014
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Aiphone Company Limited
• Original Assignee: Aiphone Company Limited
• Inventors: KITAGAWA, Kazumi
• Granted Patent: US 10,699,807 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• CPC Class Codes: A61G 10/00 Treatment rooms or enclosures for medical purposes baby incubators, couveuses A61G11/00; devices for gas baths with ozone, hydrogen or the like A61H33/14 ; for isolating individuals from external stimuli A61M21/0094 ; containers or portable cabins for affording breathing protection in general A62B31/00
• CPC Class Codes: G16H 10/60 for patient-specific data, e.g. for electronic patient records
• CPC Class Codes: G16H 40/20 for the management or administration of healthcare resources or facilities, e.g. managing hospital staff or surgery rooms
• CPC Class Codes: G16H 40/67 for remote operation

Abstract

A nurse call system according to the present invention includes a nurse call master unit (3) which includes a first display part (31); a patient information memory unit (52a) which stores patient information containing at least names of patients and person-in-charge information representing nurses each in charge of one or more of the patients; a working information memory unit (38a) which stores working information of the nurses for each date and each working time zone; and a display control unit (36) which can display a plurality of the patients and the individual nurses in charge of the plurality of patients in a next or succeeding working time zone simultaneously on the first display part (31), in a manner of associating each of the plurality of patients with one of the nurses, based on the patient and working information.

Claims

1. A nurse call system, comprising:

a nurse call master unit which includes a first display part;

a patient information memory unit which stores patient information containing at least names of patients and person-in-charge information representing nurses each in charge of one or more of the patients;

a working information memory unit which stores working information of the nurses for each day and each working time zone; and

a display control unit which can display a plurality of the patients and the nurses each in charge of one or more of the plurality of patients in a next or succeeding working time zone simultaneously on the first display part, in a display mode of associating each of the plurality of patients with one of the nurses, based on the patient information and the working information.

2. The nurse call system according to claim 1, wherein the nurse call master unit includes an operation part which can change the nurse in charge of the patient displayed on the first display part, in a state where the plurality of patients and the nurses each in charge of one or more of the plurality of patients in the next or succeeding working time zone are simultaneously displayed on the first display part, in the display mode of associating each of the plurality of patients with one of the nurses.

3. The nurse call system according to claim 1, further comprising:

a layout information memory unit which stores layout information of individual hospital rooms in a predetermined area of a hospital, wherein

the patient information further contains hospital room information of the individual patients, and wherein

the display control unit can display a layout screen indicating a layout of the individual hospital rooms in the predetermined area of the hospital on the first display part based on the layout information, and the display control unit can also display the plurality of patients, the nurses each in charge of one or more of the plurality of patients and the hospital rooms for the plurality of patients in the next or succeeding working time zone simultaneously over the layout screen on the first display part, in a display mode of associating each of the plurality of patients with one of the nurses and one of the hospital rooms, based on the patient information and the working information.

4. The nurse call system according to claim 1, wherein the patient information memory unit stores patient information of patients now being hospitalized and patient information of patients scheduled to be hospitalized.

5. The nurse call system according to claim 1, wherein the display control unit can emphatically display the patient information of a patient assigned to a particular one of the nurses, in a state where the plurality of patients and the nurses each in charge of one or more of the plurality of patients in the next or succeeding working time zone are simultaneously displayed on the first display part, in the display mode of associating each of the plurality of patients with one of the nurses.

6. The nurse call system according to claim 2, wherein

the operation part can select the patient information of a particular one of the patients and input a patient memo, in the state where the plurality of patients and the nurses each in charge of one or more of the plurality of patients in the next or succeeding working time zone are simultaneously displayed on the first display part, in the display mode of associating each of the plurality of patients with one of the nurses, and

the patient memo is reflected on the patient information of all of the other patients assigned to the nurse in charge of the particular patient.

7. The nurse call system according to claim 1, further comprising:

a nurse call slave unit which can communicate with the nurse call master unit, wherein

the nurse call master unit includes a second display part, and wherein

the display control unit displays the patient information of one of the patients, who is calling from the nurse call slave unit, on the second display unit, in a state where the plurality of patients and the nurses each in charge of one or more of the plurality of patients in the next or succeeding working time zone are simultaneously displayed on the first display part, in the display mode of associating each of the plurality of patients with one of the nurses.

8. The nurse call system according to claim 1, further comprising:

a display unit which can communicate with the display control unit and includes a third display part, wherein

the display control unit can display a plurality of the patients and the nurses each in charge of one or more of the plurality of patients in a current working time zone simultaneously on the third display part in a display mode of associating each of the plurality of patients with one of the nurses, in a state where the plurality of patients and the nurses each in charge of one or more of the plurality of patients in the next or succeeding working time zone are simultaneously displayed on the first display part in the display mode of associating each of the plurality of patients with one of the nurses.

9. The nurse call system according to claim 2, wherein

the operation part can input a working time zone memo with respect to information displayed on the first display part, in the state where the plurality of patients and the nurses each in charge of one or more of the plurality of patients in the next or succeeding working time zone are simultaneously displayed on the first display part, in the display mode of associating each of the plurality of patients with one of the nurses, and

the working time zone memo is displayed on the first display part only in the state where the plurality of patients and the nurses each in charge of one or more of the plurality of patients in the next or succeeding working time zone are simultaneously displayed on the first display part, in the display mode of associating each of the plurality of patients with one of the nurses.