Best Practices To Ensure Person-Centered Care
Honoring Choices® Pacific Northwest published the Washington
POLST Clinician Toolkit
in August 2021. The toolkit helps physicians, physician assistants, and
other members of the health care team apply best practices and create
clear and meaningful medical orders that honor an individual’s goals and
preferences.
Learning objectives
After completing the activity, learners should be able to:
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Describe new resources that physicians, advanced practitioners, and
other members of the health care team can use to promote advance care
planning, hold goals-of-care conversations, and complete POLST.
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Outline who should be offered a POLST, how to apply clinical
decision-making to know when and how to offer POLST, how to avoid
pitfalls in the clinical use of POLST, and how to ensure a POLST
reflects a person’s goals.
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Explain how to use a goals-of-care conversation in conjunction with the
POLST Completion Guide to provide whole-person care and ensure people
with serious illness receive care that is consistent with their values
and goals.
Educational resources