The addition of children

Whilst on rural placement I treated a patient who had an Achilles tendon repair. As I collected the patient from the waiting room she had two younger children with her who were both under the age of five. During the subjective ax, the children started to misbehave and the younger girl started to cry. I left the cubical and asked my supervisor if there we had toys which the children could play with and gave me playing cards and said he should have warned me about the children. The children continued to misbehave and I begun to feel frustrated that the mother was not disciplining her children. The older boy threw the cards playing cards over the floor and refused to pick them up. I was forced to pick them up as I needed the mother to complete a balance assessment. Both children then started running into the nearby cubicle through the curtain where there was another pt. The mother continued to stop her children apart from saying sorry to me. I was quite annoyed by this stage and told the children that they had to settle down a play quiet which I found hard to tell young children. The girl then started to cry again and went up to her mother on the plinth. She then found a box of gloves and started playing with them as did the boy and they both settled down.

NEXT TIME THIS PT COMES IN AND BRINGS HER CHILDREN, I WILL TAKE THE PATIENT AND THE CHILDREN INTO A PRIVATE TREATMENT ROOM TO AVOID THE DISTRUPTION OF OTHER PATIENTS. IN ADDITION, I BELIVE THAT SMALL ISSUES LIKE THIS SHOULD BE DOCUMENTED IN THE NOTES/TRANSFER SUMMARY IN A PROFESSIONAL MANNER. COMMUINCATION BETWEEN STAFF BE THAT WRITEN OR VERBAL IS IMPERATIVE TO THE SMOOTH FUNCTIONAING OF A WORKPLACE.