Today I remembered what it is that I like about out-patient nutrition counseling . . .the group classes. Group classes allow the patients to interact not only with you but also with the other patients that have similar medical conditions. The patients joke, commiserate, learn and grow together. It's awesome and honestly it's the first time that I have been left with a smile on my face after working with Adults for a long time.
Today was my first Diabetes nutrition class. Usually I counsel the adults one-on-one for half an hour sessions. Today I attempted to counsel 10 adults in one hour. I say attempted because unfortunately the weather was against me and only three showed up, but still it was tons of fun. I even had my new 3D food models to show them visually what 1/3 of a cup of brown rice really looks like. It's funny to see how shocked they are when they think about how much they usually eat!
But seriously, from here out group classes are the only thing I want to teach. Forget one on one counseling, or only make it one day a week. Group teaching is not as tiring as saying the same thing over and over again to different people all day long. Plus you get energy off of the group you have at your table, not all the time but I would hazard to say the majority of the classes. This reminds me why I wasn't so opposed to my nutrition rotation at Kaiser out-patient in Los Angeles.
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Yay!
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