Nevada POLST Training

Instructions for receiving CME/CE credit:

1. Click on the registration button above
2. Click on the course to register
3. Pay for the course
4. After payment, you will click begin the activity
5. YouTube will be embedded into the website
6. Watch the YouTube video
7. Click to claim credit
8. Enter the activity code that was provided to you in the email confirmation
9. Claim credit and generate the certificate

Evaluation and Claim Credit

1. Once you begin the video, you must watch it in its entirety to claim credit. Fast-forwarding has been disabled. You may pause the video briefly if needed. Do not close the browser window as doing so will require you to start over.
2. Once you have reached the end of the video, a button to continue will appear that will take to evaluation and start the process for receiving a certificate.
3. Failure to complete the process will result in the credit not being awarded to you.
4. Should you need to restart the process, or download a copy of a certificate at a later time, please see the instructions for accessing the online portal here: Evaluation and Claim Credit

For questions concerning the online evaluation or your certificate, please contact our office at (775) 784-4791 or email us at cme@med.unr.edu.

Accreditation Designation Statements

This activity has been planned and implemented in accordance with the accreditation requirements and policies of the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education through the joint providership of the University of Nevada, Reno School of Medicine and the Nevada Provider Order for Life-Sustaining Treatment (POLST). The University of Nevada, Reno School of Medicine is accredited by the ACCME to provide continuing medical education to physicians.

The University of Nevada, Reno School of Medicine designates this enduring material for a maximum of 1.00 AMA PRA Category 1 Credits^TM. Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.

Continuing Education Credit

The University of Nevada, Reno School of Medicine approves this program for 1.00 hour(s) of nursing continuing education credit.

This program provides 1 credit toward the Nevada State Board of Medical Examiners' requirement for 2 hours of training related to ethics, pain management, or addiction care during each licensure period.

As an accredited provider of continuing medical education through the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME) the University of Nevada, Reno School of Medicine must ensure balance, independence, objectivity, and scientific rigor in all its educational activities. In order to assure that information is presented in a scientific and objective manner, The University of Nevada, Reno School of Medicine requires that anyone in a position to control or influence the content of an accredited activity disclose all financial relationships within the prior 24 months with any commercial or proprietary entity producing health care goods or services relevant to the content being planned or presented. All relevant financial relationships have been mitigated. Following are those disclosures.

All other presenters, planners or anyone in a position to control the content of this continuing medical education activity have indicated that they do not have financial relationships with ineligible companies related to the content of this activity.

Average interval between POLST form completion and Death: Timing of POLST Form Completion by Cause of Death.  Dana M. Zive MPH Erik K.Fromme MD, MCR Terri A. Schmidt MD, MS Jennifer N.B. Cook GCPH Susan W.Tolle MD Journal of Pain and Symptom Management; Volume 50, Issue 5, November 2015, Pages 650-658.

Research: Association between POLST Choices and Hospital Deaths. Erik K Fromme 1, Dana Zive, Terri A Schmidt, Jennifer N B Cook, Susan W Tolle. Association between Physician Orders for Life-Sustaining Treatment for Scope of Treatment and in-hospital death in Oregon. Journal of American Geriatric Society. July 2014; 62(7); 1246-51

Research: POLST Preferences and Hospital Deaths. Sandra L Pedraza, Stacey Culp, Evan C Falkenstine, Alvin H Moss. POST Forms More Than Advance Directives Associated With Out-of-Hospital Death: Insights From a State Registry. Journal of Pain Management. 2016 Feb;51(2):240-6