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Overview
Overview
More than two decades ago, the Patient Self-Determination Act promised more patient involvement in end-of-life treatment decisions. Unfortunately, studies have shown that current forms of advance directives have not resulted in healthcare providers' complying with patients' end-of-life choices. To address this problem, the physician orders for life-sustaining treatment (POLST) model and form are now used or in development throughout the United States. POLST documents medical orders based on a patient's current health status regarding CPR, medical interventions, and artificially administered nutrition. The POLST form is highly visible and easily located, and it accompanies a patient across all healthcare settings. Ideally, the process reflects thoughtful advance care planning conversations between patients and healthcare providers. Research is now demonstrating that the POLST model and form help patients achieve their EOL treatment preferences.

 

Goals and Outcomes
Goals and Learning Outcomes
The goal of this program is to provide information for physicians, advanced practice nurses, and registered nurses about the goals of the physician orders for life-sustaining treatment program and how it can improve end-of-life care. After studying the information presented here, you will be able to:
  • Discuss how changing demographics and chronic disease are affecting EOL treatment.
  • Compare and contrast the purpose and components of an advance directive and the POLST program.
  • Discuss how the POLST program and form can help healthcare professionals honor patient choices for EOL care.
Details
Course Details

CE706NT

Course Author

Dawn Demangone-Yoon

MD

Cheryl Koehl

MSN, APN, RN-BC

Accreditations
Accreditations

NURSES
In support of improving patient care, Relias LLC is jointly accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME), the Accreditation Council for Pharmacy Education (ACPE), and the American Nurses Credentialing Center (ANCC), to provide continuing education for the healthcare team.

Provider approved by the California Board of Registered Nursing, CEP#13791

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Disclaimer: Not all courses will provide California Board of Registered Nursing approval. Per California Assembly Bill No. 241, continuing education courses related to direct patient care shall address at least one or a combination of the following:(1) Examples of how implicit bias affects perceptions and treatment decisions of licensees, leading to disparities in health outcomes; or (2) Strategies to address how unintended biases in decision-making may contribute to health care disparities by shaping behavior and producing differences in medical treatment along lines of race, ethnicity, gender identity, sexual orientation, age, socioeconomic status, or other characteristics.

CEBroker
Relias LLC reports to CEBroker for the following boards (Provider # 50-1489): Arkansas State Board Of Nursing, District Of Columbia Board Of Nursing, Florida Board Of Nursing, Georgia Board Of Nursing, New Mexico Board Of Nursing, South Carolina Board Of Nursing and West Virginia Board Of Examiners For Registered Professional Nurses
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Disclosures
None of the planners/faculty, unless otherwise noted, for this educational activity have relevant financial relationship(s) to disclose with ineligible companies whose primary business is producing, marketing, selling, re-selling, or distributing healthcare products used by or on patients.