POST records your wishes for medical treatment in your current state of health. Once initial medical treatment is begun and the risks and benefits of further therapy are clear, your …
A copy, facsimile, or electronic version of a completed POST form is considered to be legal. The execution of a POST form is always voluntary and is for a person with an advanced illness. …
POST must be signed by a physician or, at discharge or transfer from a hospital or long term care facility, by a nurse practitioner (NP), clinical nurse specialist (CNS), or physician assistant (PA).
The POST form documents patients’ preferences about a range of treatment options, including resuscitation, intubation, hospitalization, antibiotics, and feeding tubes.
California law enforcement or dispatch agencies in the POST program, POST-certified training presenters, and presenters and students of the California basic course instructional system …
Person with DNR in effect at time of discharge must have POST completed by health care facility prior to discharge and copy of POST provided to qualified medical emergency personnel. …
Recommendation #8: Expand the MI-POST to direct care beyond emergency medical services personnel to provide for the execution of a MI-POST for an individual in all settings.