Nursing's perspective on improving communication about nursing home residents' preferences for medical treatments at end of life

Virginia P. Tilden; Christine A. Nelson; Patrick M. Dunn; Maggie Donius; Susan W. Tolle

doi:10.1067/mno.2000.100434

Nursing's perspective on improving communication about nursing home residents' preferences for medical treatments at end of life

Virginia P. Tilden, Christine A. Nelson, Patrick M. Dunn, Maggie Donius, Susan W. Tolle

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Oregon has developed a concise, 1-page medical order form, now widely used in nursing homes and hospice programs throughout the state, that conveys individual preferences for life-sustaining treatments or comfort-oriented treatments at the end of life. This article describes nursing's role in the multidisciplinary development, refinement, testing and implementation of the form and briefly summarizes results from descriptive research that demonstrated the effectiveness of the POLST in a nursing home sample.

Original language	English (US)
Pages (from-to)	109-115
Number of pages	7
Journal	Nursing outlook
Volume	48
Issue number	3
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1067/mno.2000.100434
State	Published - 2000

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