Ateneo de Davao University

Graduate School

Name: Dennis N. Muñoz, LPT, RM, RN Course: Nsg 707- Nursing Leadership
Student Number: 22017001253391 & Administration

Degree: Master’s in Nursing Professor: Dr. Patria V. Manalaysay

What is the difference between Nursing records and nursing reports?

Nursing records
1. A record is a permanent written communication that documents information relevant
to a client’s health care management.
2. A record is a clinical, scientific, administrative, and legal document relating to the
nursing care given to the individual family or community.
3. Records are a practical and indispensable aid to doctor, nurse, and paramedical
personnel in giving the best possible service to their clients.  Recorded facts have
value and scientific accuracy for more than mere impression of memory and there
are guidelines for better administration of health services.
4. Records the memory of the internal and external transactions of an organization.
Records contain a written evidence of the activities of an organization in the form of
letters, circulars, reports, contracts, invoices, vouchers, minutes of meeting, books of
account etc.
5. It is a written communication that permanently documents information relevant to a
client’s health care management. It is a continuing account of the client’s health care
needs.

Nursing Report
1. Reports are oral or written exchanges of information shared between caregivers or
workers in a number of ways.
2. A report is the summary of the services of person or personnel and of the agency.
3. Reports can be compiled daily, weekly, monthly, quarterly, and annually. Report
summarizes the services of the nurse and/ or the agency. Reports may be in the
form of an analysis of some aspect of a service. These are based on records and
registers and so it is relevant for the nurses to maintain the records regarding their
daily case load, service load and activities.