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Item POLST Is More Than a Code Status Order Form: Suggestions for Appropriate POLST Use in Long-Term Care(Elsevier, 2021-08) Hickman, Susan E.; Steinberg, Karl; Carney, John; Lum, Hillary D.; School of NursingPOLST (Physician Orders for Life-Sustaining Treatment) is a medical order form used to document preferences about cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR), medical interventions such as hospitalization, care in the intensive care unit, and/or ventilation, as well as artificial nutrition. Programs based on the POLST paradigm are used in virtually every state under names that include POST (Physician Orders for Scope of Treatment), MOLST (Medical Orders for Life-Sustaining Treatment), and MOST (Medical Orders for Scope of Treatment), and these forms are used in the care of hundreds of thousands of geriatric patients every year. Although POLST is intended for persons who are at risk of a life-threatening clinical event due to a serious life-limiting medical condition, some nursing homes and residential care settings use POLST to document CPR preferences for all residents, resulting in potentially inappropriate use with patients who are ineligible because they are too healthy. This article focuses on reasons that POLST is used as a default code status order form, the risks associated with this practice, and recommendations for nursing homes to implement appropriate use of POLST.Item Preparation Matters: What We Can Learn From an Olympic Swimmer About the Value of Advance Care Planning Interventions(ACP, 2021-11) Hickman, Susan E.; Lum, Hillary D.; School of NursingItem The care planning umbrella: The evolution of advance care planning(Wiley, 2023) Hickman, Susan E.; Lum, Hillary D.; Walling, Anne M.; Savoy, April; Sudore, Rebecca L.; School of Nursing