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
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Mabel Bodell, MD, Nephrologist/Transplant Nephrologist, Clinical
Assistant Professor, Department of Medicine/University of Washington;
Medical Director, Acute Dialysis Unit, Confluence Health, Wenatchee
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Raleigh Bowden, MD, Director, Okanogan Palliative Care Initiative;
Robert Wood Johnson Clinical Scholar, 2019-2022
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Eze Oluo, Projects Manager, Permanente Medicine; Member, BIPOC Health
Careers Ecosystem
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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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