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CANCELLED Advance Care Planning (ACP) Advance Directives and Provider Orders for Life-Sustaining Treatment (POLST) Facilitator Training

May 6, 2020 @ 8:00 am – 4:30 pm HST

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This training is offered for nurses, physicians, social workers and other clinicians and focuses on communication skills to improve ACP discussions. The class will review key elements and processes related to ACP, advance directives and POLST development.

Course Objectives:

  • Apply ACP resources to promote advance care planning discussions
  • Engage the multidisciplinary team to patient-centered discussion addressing advance care planning
  • Promote patients’ knowledge of advance directives including health care power of attorney designation
  • Implement correct documentation of POLST – CPR, DNAR, full and limited treatment, time-limited trials and comfort care
  • Promote correct process of ACP documents – access and utilization in your organization
  • Identify the Hawai‘i requirements of Medical Aid in Dying, Our Care, Our Choice Act.

Hawai‘i Pacific Health
Learning Resource Center, Room 101
793 S Hotel Street (Next to Straub Medical Center)
Honolulu, HI 96813

  • May – Wednesday, 5/6/2020 from 0800-1630
  • August – Wednesday, 8/5/2020 from 0800-1630
  • November – Thursday, 11/12/2020 from 0800-1630

HPH employees:
Manager’s approval is required prior to registering AND register online through HPH Learning Center (HLC). Type in catalog: ACP or POLST ; Select course: HPH – POLST Advance Care Planning (ACP) Facilitator Certification 2019

Non HPH participants:
Register online: https://www.hawaiipacifichealth.org/health-wellness/continuing-education/

For further information contact: Dr Amy Corliss at 245-1277 or Michelle Cantillo, RN, HPH ACP Coordinator at 808- 535-7874 or michelle.cantillo{at}hawaiipacifichealth.org

Hawaii Pacific Health

793 S Hotel Street
Honolulu, Hawaii 96813 + Google Map