POLST Training for Providers in Hawai‘i

Kokua Mau, Hawaii Hospice and Palliative Care Organization invites you to a 4 hour training for providers who are completing the POLST.

Who should attend: All Professionals especially providers who can complete and sign the form - Advance Practice Registered Nurses (APRNs) and Physicians. 

The workshop includes reviewing the POLST orders, initiating POLST and Advance Care Planning (ACP) conversations including ACP decision video aides tools and role-playing. The faculty are experts from our Hawaii community, all with direct experience of discussing and completing POLST. The faculty are experts from our Hawaii community, all with direct experience of discussing and completing POLST.

Sat. March 28, 2015
12:30-4:30pm.
15 Craigside Solarium
15 Craigside Place, Honolulu HI 96817
(Registration and lunch beginning at 11:30am)

Agenda, Leaning Objectives and Faculty bios on our website

Discounted Registration fee available for Kokua Mau Members. If your employer is a member for 2015 you qualify for the discount.

If you have not joined or renewed your individual membership for 2015 please follow this easy link.

What is POLST?
In 2014 POLST (Provider Orders for Life-Sustaining Treatment) legislation was passed giving signing privileges to APRNs and Physicians for a POLST. The Kokua Mau website is the central source for POLST information for Hawai‘i.

POLST is a portable medical order that gives patients more control over their end-of-life care.  It specifies the types of treatments that a patient wishes to receive towards the end of life. Completing a POLST form encourages communication between healthcare providers and patients, enabling patients to make more informed decisions. POLST form documents those decisions in a clear manner and can be quickly understood by all providers, including first responders and emergency medical services (EMS) personnel. As a result, the patient’s wishes can be honored across all settings of care.

You can download the (new) POLST form and POLST information for providers and consumers.