Preparing for your certification exam
The Advanced Certified Hospice and Palliative Nurse (ACHPN®) exam from the Hospice and Palliative Credentialing Center (HPCC) is designed for experienced hospice and palliative advanced practice registered nurses. HPNA offers several educational resources to help you prepare for your upcoming ACHPN® exam.
HPCC is not able to conduct or recommend specific exam preparation materials. The use of HPNA exam preparation materials does not imply successful performance on HPCC certification exams. The use of HPNA exam preparation materials does not give an advantage over candidates who do not choose to use them.
Prepare for your ACHPN® exam with a live, virtual, instructor-led review course. This review course provides a framework to prepare and a process to assess strengths and weaknesses of content prior to sitting for your exam. Facilitated by nationally recognized subject matter experts, these one-day, intensive courses address sections of the Detailed Content Outline from the Candidate Handbook.
2023 course dates
Register for November 10Cost: $360 for HPNA members; $485 for non-members (includes 1-yr HPNA membership)
Continuing Education: 8.75 NCPD hours and 4 Category 1 Pharm credits
This Online Lecture Review Course is a self-paced voiceover slide presentation of the ACHPN® Review Course. This course includes six modules, each with their own objectives, slide presentation, and accompanying audio. The modules address sections of the Detailed Content Outline from the Candidate Handbook. This Lecture Review provides a framework to prepare and a process to assess strengths and weaknesses of content prior to sitting for your exam.
After purchase, this course is available to you for 90 days.
Modules:
- Overview, test taking strategies, and exam structure
- Nursing process
- Scientific knowledge
- Professionalism
- Education and communication
- System issues
Cost: $165 for HPNA members; $265 for non-members
Continuing Education: 7 NCPD hours; 3 Category 1 Pharm credits
Buy NowThis 50-question practice exam is a study tool for you to see sample ACHPN® test questions, receive rationale for correct and incorrect answers, and review results online.
Cost: $35 for HPNA members; $45 for non-members
After purchase, this course is available to you for 90 days.
Not eligible for continuing education credit.
This is a virtual activity, available through HPNA University.
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Core Curriculum for the Hospice and Palliative APRN, Third Edition, 2020
ISBN-13: 978-1-934654-00-2
The Core Curriculum is an essential tool for APRNs as it offers information in all aspects of advanced hospice and palliative nursing.
To best prepare for the ACHPN® exam, this publication is organized by the five domains of the Detailed Content Outline for the ACHPN® exam. These domains are:
- Nursing process in caring for adult patients and families to include assessment, diagnostics and planning, interventions, and evaluation
- Scientific knowledge (biomedical, clinical, and psychosocial-behavioral), including disease progress, diagnostic tests and procedures, prognosis and responses to illness, loss, grief, and bereavement
- Education and communication with patients, families, and healthcare communities
- Professionalism, including ethics, scope/standards/guidelines, self-care, collegial support, leadership, and self-development
- Systems issues, including resources, utilization and continuum of care, and quality improvement
The Core Curriculum also includes a section on common validated assessment tools, common palliative medications, and resources for studying for the ACHPN® exam.
Cost: $170 for HPNA members; $210 for non-members
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