Congratulations on Becoming Certified!
We’re thrilled to welcome you to the Hospice and Palliative Credentialing Center (HPCC) community—an accomplished network of thousands of certificants nationwide.
As a newly certified HPCC professional, your certification journey is just beginning. Over the next four years, you’ll have many opportunities to get involved—whether by serving on a committee, advocating for the value of certification, or connecting with peers. Every certificant plays a vital role in advancing the mission of HPCC, and we’re excited to have you on board.
Claim Your Digital Badge
You will have received an email from Credly inviting you to claim your digital badge. This will allow you to easily share your HPCC certification with colleagues, managers, and your professional network on LinkedIn and other platforms. Learn more
For more information on claiming and sharing your badge, check out this video.
What are the benefits of a digital badge?
- Easily manage, share, and verify your learning achievements
- Secure verification adds credibility to your achievement
- Connect your skills with active job opportunities with Credly’s labor market insights
- Access promotional offers and learning pathways available only to badge earners
What happens next?
- You will receive an email from Credly inviting you to accept your badge.
- Click the button in the email.
- Create and confirm your Credly account.
- Accept your badge and start sharing.
If you do not see an email from Credly, please check your junk or spam folder. Don’t see it there? Email hpcc@gohpcc.org.
You may download and print your official HPCC certificate through the Credly or LearningBuilder platforms.
To print from LearningBuilder: follow this video guide for step-by-step instructions. In addition to your certificate, you can also download a verification letter. To print from Credly: accept your digital badge then follow the video guide for step-by-step instructions.
Learn About Recertification
Every certificant is required to recertify every four years. The renewal process is called the Hospice and Palliative Accrual for Recertification (HPAR), which requires fulfilling practice hour requirements and accumulating required points through various professional activities. HPCC encourages certificants to work toward recertification over the four-year certification period. Learning Plans may be submitted for renewal up to one year before the certification expiration.
The requirements of HPAR help demonstrate continuing competence by allowing professionals to exhibit critical thinking skills and express competencies through continuing education, scholarly accomplishments, and professional contributions.
- ACHPN®, APHSW-C, CHPCA®, CHPN®, CHPPN®, and CPLC® certificants renew through HPAR.
- CHPLN® and CHPNA® certificants have the option to renew by HPAR or by testing.
LearningBuilder is the platform HPCC uses for recertification for the ACHPN®, APHSW-C, CHPCA®, CHPLN®, CHPN®, CHPNA®, CHPPN®, and CPLC® certifications. Through LearningBuilder, each certificant has an individual Learning Plan where they can enter their activities required for renewal.
The SJE is a required component of the recertification process for ACHPN® and CHPN® certificants. It uses a series of case-based scenarios to evaluate critical reasoning and clinical application of content beyond the level of the initial certification exam. The SJE is not pass/fail, but rather an exercise to evaluate skills.
You may complete the SJE at any time during your four-year certification period. However, HPCC recommends that it is completed at least 30 days before the expiration of your certification. It takes the SJE at least one business day to be loaded into a Learning Plan. The SJE can be completed individually or with others in a group. If you complete the SJE in a group, each certificant must purchase the exercise, complete it, and submit it to receive credit.
Learn MoreThe Hospice and Palliative Nurses Foundation (HPNF) provides scholarships each year to nurses and other members of the interprofessional team to cover the cost of fees for those earning or renewing an HPCC credential.
Last year, HPNF awarded 25 scholarships to HPCC certificants.
Learn MoreGet Involved
HPCC regularly has volunteer opportunities available for certificants. When opportunities become available, HPCC will send an email with details. Open opportunities may also be found on the website.
Volunteer opportunities include but are not limited to:
- Exam Development Committees
- Situational Judgment Exercise Committees
- Passing Point Study
- Award Selection Committee
- DEIB Committee
- Item Writers
Volunteering with HPCC allows certificants to grow professionally, network with other certificants, and shape certification programs. It also provides an extension to the certification period.
Learn More
Each year, HPCC recognizes certificants for their contributions to advancing expert care through Certificant of the Year Awards. Eligible certificants include currently certified individuals from all programs.
Do you know a deserving certificant or would you like to nominate yourself? The application for the 2026 Certificant of the Year Awards is now open. The deadline to apply is June 1, 2025.
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