Tuesday, 25 September 2007
distracting visitors
Has anyone needed to ask family or visitors to leave a treatment session? i was treating a 22yo pt who presented with knee instability and occasional sharp pain. She was fitting her physio sessions in amongst uni lectures and one time arrived with 2 friends. They walked into the treatment rooms with her and in doing so said 'oh its ok that my friends come in isnt it??' to which i said that was fine so long as they allowed us to focus on the physio session. During assessment they were all talking and i politely asked if they could leave the chat till later as we had limited treatment time. During HLB Ax they were laughing and distracting the pt and thus affecting the outcome, and again i asked that they please sit quietly while the session continued. This happened a couple more times throughout the session and whilst i found it easy to ask them to be quiet and not distract the pt i felt unable to ask them to leave, seeing as id already said they could come in. Has anyone else asked people to leave? What is the best way to go about it?
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I would ask them politely to leave Em. You can say that you need to speak with the patient alone and require privacy. Then focus on the patient - asking your S & O questions, Rx and re-Ax, giving them continual feedback. Anything that hinders best possible practice on your part and is reasonable can be "removed".
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