Patent ID: 8438043

Claim:
A nursing information management apparatus, comprising: a processor configured to execute the following: a setting unit which sets a plan on a medical action for a patient; an implementation recording unit which records a content of an implementation of a nursing action conducted along with the plan set by the setting unit; a discrepancy information input unit in which is defined a plurality of types of units affected by a data entry indicating a contributing factor to a discrepancy between the content of an implementation recorded by the implementation recording unit and the plan set by the setting unit, and in which is defined selectability of each entry unit available when the entry unit is selected, and which acknowledges information on a contributing factor to a discrepancy entered by an user according to the selectability associated with a selected entry unit; a discrepancy information recording unit which records the information on a contributing factor to a discrepancy inputted by the discrepancy information input unit and the problem related to the patient's disease by associating the information on a contributing factor to a discrepancy and the problem related to the patient's disease; and a counting unit that counts the information on a contributing factor to a discrepancy recorded in the discrepancy information recording unit for each item indicated by the selectability associated with the entry unit, wherein the plurality of types of entry units includes a unit of hospitalization, a unit of department, a unit of disease, and a unit of problem, each with different selectability.