The POLST document can be a very nuanced and confusing document. WSMA in collaboration with Honoring Choices PNW has put together a toolkit found here. We encourage you to review the Toolkit for your own edification and to help understand the appropriate use of the POLST document and to learn more about completing POLST with patients.

This toolkit is designed to assist health care teams identify who should be offered a POLST, how to apply clinical decision-making to know when and how to offer POLST, how to avoid pitfalls in the clinical use of POLST, and how to ensure a POLST reflects an individual’s goals. This toolkit contains resource materials to explain how to use a goals of care conversation in conjunction with POLST to provide whole-person care and ensure individuals with serious illness receive care that is consistent with their values and goals.