PROCESS RECORDING
It is a tool used in teaching
counselling and psychiatric field. Its also known as interpersonal relations
recordings patient nurse interaction interviews. It is being utilized as a tool
to help them in assisting nursing students to acquire understanding of and
competence in IPR.
DEFINITION
A verbatim account of a visit for
purposes of bringing out the interplay
between the nurse and the patient in relation to the objectives of the visit.
PURPOSE
1. As
a teaching tool
2. As
a self-evaluation tool
3. As
a therapeutic tool
ELEMENTS
1. Conversational
skills
2. Skills
in interviewing for a specific purpose
3. Verbal
and non-verbal cues to the patient’s needs
4. Skill
in meeting the patient’s needs
5. Awareness
of the behaviour in relation to the patient
6. Control
of behaviour as a result of awareness
7. Recurrent
themes in the nurse patient interaction
8. Skills
in verbal intervention
9. Interaction
patterns
10. Genetic
experiences out of which the interaction patterns are developed
TECHNIQUES
1. Preparing
the student for process recording
Ø The
researcher must help the student to define clearly the appropriate objectives
to be accomplished regarding nurse patient interaction
Ø Teacher
should help the student to learn how to go about in writing a process record
2. Recording
nurse patient interaction
Ø The
exact verbatim of the nurse patient interaction
Ø The
student’s conscious feelings and her interpretation of the patient’s feelings
Ø Analysis
for meanings and clues to patient’s needs
Ø The
instructor and the student evaluation of the total process record experience
3. Evaluating
the nurse patient interaction
Ø After
the interaction data have been collected by the student the teacher and the
student have the subject matter for a learning experience
Ø Analysis
of data is time consuming and should be considered by the teacher before she
selects the process recording as a teaching tool
Ø During
the process on analysing the recordings the objectives of the learning
experience should be kept clearly in focus
Ø The
teacher must discuss the process recording with the student
Ø The
teacher should help the student to explore the reason for nurse patient interaction
FORM OF PROCESS
RECORDING
·
Goals for working with
assigned patient
·
Important factors in
patient’s personality development
·
Somatic therapies and
medications for patient
·
Date each recording
·
Amount of time which
you spent with the patient
·
Describe briefly the
setting or situation previous to conversation
·
Identify the patient’s
needs as represented by behaviour
·
Identify mental
mechanisms that you think the patient is using and give examples
·
After completion of
this assignment comment on how well you were able to meet the goals which you
set up for working with assigned patient
·
Evaluate the process
record as a learning experience for you at the end of the assignment
FORMAT OF PROCESS
RECORDING
Conversation between
nurse and patient
|
Student’s comment
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Instructor’s comment
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