for educational purpose.

1. Process
Recording.
BY:K.CHITRA

2. INTRODUCTION:
• Process recording are the written reports of verbal interactions
with clients. They are verbatim (to the extent that is possible)
accounts, written by the nurse or student as a tool for improving
interpretation communication techniques.

4. DEFINITION:
• Process recording is a written account recording of all that
transpired, during and immediately following the nurse patient
interaction.
• It is recording of the conversation during the interaction or the
interview between nurse and the patient in the psychiatric
setup with the nurse inference.

5. PURPOSE:
• To critically analyze communication and its effect on behavior of
the individual.
• To gain the patients confidence and get this cooperation.
• To establish rapport with the patient.
• To study the patients psychological social and emotional behavior.
• It helps to increase the ability to identify problems and develop
skills in solving them.
• It gives students an opportunity to gain the ease and function in
written expression that are important for professional
development.

7. GOALS AND OBJECTIVES
• Establish a therapeutic nurse patient relationship.
• To give necessary health education to the patient.
• To obtain the identification data of the patient.
• To assess the insight of the patient.

9. GENERAL GUIDELINES
• Process recording is one method by which we can record the
content of an interview.
• Record the conversation verbal time
• Use a recording device and obtain patients permission for using it
this will in reviewing the session if needed.
• Each process recording should be concluded with a summary.

10. PRE- REQUISITE OF PROCESS
RECORDING
• Getting consent of the patient for the possibility of cassette recording.
• Confidentiality should be maintain.
• Physical setting , calm and quite environment.

11. • Preparation .
• Record nurse patient interaction .
• written process recording may begin with taken during the
interview.
• Identification data .
• Present Complaint.