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Questions & answers
What questions are on POLST?
What information is on a POLST form? Whether you want cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) attempted. Whether you want to go to the hospital or stay where you are. Whether you want to receive care in an intensive care unit and be on a breathing machine, if needed.
Is a POLST form a legal document?
What's A POLST (Physicians Orders For Life Sustaining Treatment)? This is a legal document that specifies the type of care a person with an advanced, progressive, or terminal illnesses would want.
What is the main advantage of a POLST?
POLST helps give seriously-ill patients more control over the medical treatment they receive. The POLST form guides discussions between patients, their families, their physician, and their healthcare team about treatment wishes in instances of serious illness.
How do you explain a POLST form?
The Physician Orders for Life Sustaining Treatment (POLST) form is a written medical order from a physician, nurse practitioner or physician assistant that helps give people with serious illnesses more control over their own care by specifying the types of medical treatment they want to receive during serious illness.
What needs to be present on the form for the POLST to be valid?
The POLST form is a medical order and must be signed by a physician, nurse practitioner or physician assistant to be valid (depends on state law). Each form has a statement or attestation that the health care professional's signature on the form indicates the orders on the form reflect the patient's treatment wishes.
What is the difference between an advance directive and a POLST form?
An advance directive is a direction from the patient, not a medical order. In contrast, a POLST form consists of a set of medical orders that applies to a limited population of patients and addresses a limited number of critical medical decisions.
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