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ACP and Serious Illness On-Demand Webinars

New Washington State Advance Directive and other Advance Care Planning Resources

Overview of the changes to the WA state advance directive, now a WSMA supported form, and other valuable resources to help capture a person’s preferences for care in serious illness, at end of life and after death.

Offered by Hilary Walker, System ACP Program Manager PeaceHealth and Chair WSICC with other special guests


(Originally recorded on June 13, 2024)

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POLST and Advance Care Planning in Washington State: Where We Are Now

Sharmon Figenshaw, ARNP, palliative care nurse practitioner and co-chair of the Washington POLST Task Force, and Hilary Walker, OTL, Chair or WA Serious Illness Care Coalition and Program Coordinator for Advance Care Planning with PeaceHealth Medical System, review state wide initiatives, updates and resources that physicians, advanced practitioners, and other members of the health care team can access to promote advance care planning and goals of care conversations.

They offer insights into “the right document, at the right time, for the right person” and invite participation in open discussion about how advance care planning documents and POLST are currently being used in your medical systems.

(Originally recorded on Feb. 29, 2024)

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Recognizing Inequities in Serious Illness and End-of-Life Care

Physicians, health care professionals, and members of the public join together for a webinar on enhancing communication and connection about serious illness, end-of-life, and after-death issues—presented by the Washington Serious Illness Care Coalition.

Hope Wechkin, MD, FAAHPM, HMDC—WSICC chair and medical director of EvergreenHealth Hospice— re-introduces the coalition and its new mission, vision, values, and strategic goals.

Keynote speaker, Edwin Lindo, JD—assistant dean for social and health justice in the Office of Healthcare Equity and faculty member within the Department of Family Medicine at the University of Washington School of Medicine—explores our biases and identify ways racism impacts the care patients receive. You will develop tools to advocate for people from marginalized communities, provide culturally sensitive care that honors people’s values and beliefs, and deliver high quality, compassionate care during serious illness and at the end of life.

We close the webinar with a panel of physicians, health care professionals, and advocates who share their unique expertise and discuss how to ensure that people of every background, culture, and identity can have their needs met and their wishes explored and honored.

Panelists

  • Mabel Bodell, MD, Nephrologist/Transplant Nephrologist, Clinical Assistant Professor, Department of Medicine/University of Washington; Medical Director, Acute Dialysis Unit, Confluence Health, Wenatchee
  • Raleigh Bowden, MD, Director, Okanogan Palliative Care Initiative; Robert Wood Johnson Clinical Scholar, 2019-2022
  • Eze Oluo, Projects Manager, Permanente Medicine; Member, BIPOC Health Careers Ecosystem
  • Moderator: Devyani Chandran, PhD, Director, Palliative Care Institute; Associate Professor, Health and Community Studies, Western Washington University

WSICC, formerly known as the Washington End-of-Life Coalition, was formed in the early 1990s, and is jointly sponsored by the WSMA Foundation and the Washington State Hospital Association. The coalition is a broad-based group of individuals and organizations dedicated to helping patients, physicians, clinicians, and caregivers improve the way we prepare for and treat serious illness and end-of-life care. This free webinar serves as part of our mission to promote education and conversations about living and dying in Washington state.

(Originally recorded April 29, 2022)

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Washington POLST: Best Practices and Practical Tips for Conversation

Sharmon Figenshaw, ARNP, WA POLST Task Force co-chair and Honoring Choices PNW clinical advisor, outlines best practices for effective use of POLST and provides communication techniques and a framework for holding goals of care conversations. Participants will be able to guide an individual in treatment options that match their stated goals, values, and preferences and ultimately complete a POLST form that accurately and consistently reflects a patient’s choices for end-of-life care.

This activity has been approved for AMA PRA Category 1 Credit™.

(Originally recorded on October 22, 2021)

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The Washington POLST Clinician Toolkit: Best Practices to Ensure Person-Centered Care

Honoring Choices PNW is pleased to present the Washington POLST Clinician Toolkit. This toolkit guides clinicians on the purpose, intended use, and completion of the POLST.

Sharmon Figenshaw, ARNP, palliative care nurse practitioner and co-chair of the Washington POLST Task Force, and Kelsey Stufflebeam, MHA, assistant director at Honoring Choices PNW, review 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. They 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. They 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.

(Originally recorded on August 5, 2021)

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Advance Care Planning Documents – Get to Know the New Advance Directive and WA POLST

The new and improved Advance Directive and Washington POLST forms will be released in early April. Join Sue Bergmann, MBA, BSN, senior director of Honoring Choices Pacific Northwest; Sharmon Figenshaw, ARNP, co-chair of the WA POLST Task Force; and Jessica Martinson, director of continuing professional development at the WSMA for a tour of the new documents. Honoring people’s values, goals, and preferences is the cornerstone of our work. The purpose of Advance Directive and Washington POLST documents is to ensure people’s future medical decisions are accurately reflected in enforceable documents. Speakers review key changes that streamline, clarify, and modernize the documents.

(Originally recorded on April 7, 2021)

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