Advance Directives, POLST and DNR Orders | Episode 78

Lexcura Clinical Insights · Oct 10, 2026 · 12m

A patient can do everything right. She signs a living will, completes a POLST form with her doctor and chooses no CPR. Then a hospital stay, a missing transfer packet and a default order change her record to “full code.” When she’s found unresponsive, the nurse follows what the record says.

In this second episode of the end-of-life series on Lexcura Clinical Insights, Michelle Carroll, Founder and Chief Clinical Strategist of Lexcura Summit, explains the documents people mix up all the time: advance directives, health care proxies, DNR orders and POLST forms. She covers what each one does and…