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

1.Learning Objective:

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.
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.
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.

Taking into account how well the learner objectives were met, how would you rate the session?

4.List 2-3 strategies that you plan to implement as a result of viewing this webinar.

5.What barriers do you face in implementing what you learned at the activity?

6.A "commercial interest" is defined as any entity producing, marketing, selling, re-selling or distributing health care goods or services consumed by, or used on, patients. Among the exemptions to this definition are government organizations, non-health care related companies and non-profit organizations that do not advocate for commercial interests. Did you perceive any bias toward a "commercial interest" in this activity?

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