PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a nurse call system capable of detecting a patients state of sitting up in the bed or leaving the bed by a relatively simple operation on the basis of the patients images photographed by a camera and also capable of taking the patients privacy into consideration despite the use of the camera.SOLUTION: A nurse call system includes: a camera 5 for photographing a patient in the bed a state determination part 21 provided on a corridor lamp for outputting an attention state occurrence signal upon detecting the patients state of sitting up in the bed or leaving the bed on the basis of images photographed by the camera 5 and a nurse call parent apparatus 3 for displaying the patient image on a display part 3b for notification, upon reception of the attention state occurrence signal.
