Process recording is a written account of verbal interactions between a nurse and patient used to improve communication skills. It involves verbatim recording of conversations to analyze the communication's effect on behavior, establish rapport, and study psychological and social aspects. The goals are to build a therapeutic relationship, provide health education, obtain patient data, and assess insight. General guidelines include recording conversation details, time, obtaining permission to record, and including a summary. Pre-requisites are patient consent, maintaining confidentiality, a calm environment, and preparation.

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.