by APFLI | May 13, 2015 | Treatment Concerns - Definitions / Living Wills / Palliative Care / Terminal or Excessive Sedation / Organ Donation / DCD or NHBD / Hospice / POLST / DNR
Physician’s Order for Life-Sustaining Treatment (POLST): Your Life or Death – Who Decides? The POLST movement “is a national effort to manage and control death under the guise of compassion.” – Lisa Gasbarre Black, J.D., General Counsel...
by APFLI | Aug 15, 2010 | Imposed Death - Definitions / Euthanasia / Assisted Suicide / VSED
POLST: stands for Physician's Order for Life-Sustaining Treatment. In some states it is called MOLST (medical orders for life-sustaining treatment) or similar names. A one page, two-sided form printed on brightly colored heavy paper, it is placed in the...
by APFLI | Jul 29, 2007 | Treatment Concerns - Definitions / Living Wills / Palliative Care / Terminal or Excessive Sedation / Organ Donation / DCD or NHBD / Hospice / POLST / DNR
Commentary: Know Your POLST By Karen Ward, RN POLST (Physician Orders for Life-Sustaining Treatment), also called POST (Physician Orders for Scope of Treatment) and MOST (Medical Orders for Scope of Treatment), is incrementally making its way across the U.S....
