Kumpulan A presentation -- OT in diabetes care

Back to 24/10/12, our group had successfully presented our group presentation, that is Occupational Therapy in Diabetes Care.

Before the presentation, our group leader had delegated the job and i was ordered to prepare assessment of occupational therapy in diabetes.

From the beginning, i thought it will be very easy and i just did few slides with OT assessment and assessment tools. So when the leader asked the slide from me, i just passed it up without correct it. So, my group members reviewed my slide and asked me what i am going to present with those few slides because the title already very clearly stated, OT in diabetes care. By that time, i still didn't admitted i was wrong and just blaming them for not understand me.

So i corrected the slide but there was not much improvement. Basically i just add in more assessment and assessment tools. My group members reviewed it again and one of them started to send me some journals and asked me to correct it. So i read through them and tried to correct them all over again. I read a presentation from AOTA that about OT and diabetes. I go through the presentation and i was still not clear about what i can prepare my slide from it. So i asked my group member's opinion and he seem like gave up on me because he already explained to me for few times. At this point, i was overwhelming by inferior. I blame myself for being slow and why others can be so clever? Thank God the feeling was not persisted for a long time. Few hours later, i managed to back on the track and continue with my slide preparation.

Thank to the member, i managed to prepare my slide according to the AADE 7 Self-Care Behaviors that was presented by AOTA. In AADE 7 Self-Care Behaviors,  there are Healthy eating, Being active, Healthy coping, Problem solving, Risk reduction, Monitoring and Taking medication. AADE 7 Self-Care Behaviors are more to changes in lifestyle to cope with diabetes.

So for each behaviors, we can actually assess the patient. For example, being active, we can assess patient by using leisure checklist to identify patients' leisure hobby and design an activity for them to involve so that they can stay active. For taking medication self care behavior, as an OT we can assess the patient's IADL to identify his/her dependency in taking medication. Then, we can carry out intervention if the patient unable to take medication independently.

On the day of presentation, our presentation was actually over time. Encik Hibatullah was the person in charge to evaluate us and i don't know he is an OT! felt so embarassing after i got to know he is an OT. Lesson learnt, try to understand your evaluator before your presentation. Overall, our presentation was good but we emphasized too much on medical part. Since the title already stated OT in diabetes care, so we should more focus on OT part. We hope we can improved from time to time in preparation and presentation of our group work. I would like to thank to the member who actually assist me in doing my part, actually he can just ignored me and just go on with her own part but thank God he didn't do so. I was glad full i had so awesome group member who willing to sacrifice his time to give me advice and guidance.