Start Date
5-28-2020 9:00 AM
End Date
5-28-2020 5:00 PM
Description
With an increase in patients from long term care facilities being admitted to the hospital, a lack of goals of care documentation became evident and presented the providers with many unknowns regarding patient care.
Without documentation and sick with COVID, patients cannot always advocate for themselves. This problem is worsened by the ban on visitors, preventing surrogate decision makers from being in the room.
There is a need for providers at long term care facilities to have these goals of care discussions, for COVID specific circumstances and for long term care.
Keywords
COVID-19, SARS-CoV-2, coronavirus, goals of care, POLST
Included in
Increasing POLST Documentation for Patient Transfers from Long Term Care Facilities
With an increase in patients from long term care facilities being admitted to the hospital, a lack of goals of care documentation became evident and presented the providers with many unknowns regarding patient care.
Without documentation and sick with COVID, patients cannot always advocate for themselves. This problem is worsened by the ban on visitors, preventing surrogate decision makers from being in the room.
There is a need for providers at long term care facilities to have these goals of care discussions, for COVID specific circumstances and for long term care.
Comments
Presented at the 2020 House Staff Quality Improvement and Patient Safety Conference