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Annual Assembly 2025 Principal Call for Abstracts Now Open
The principal call is open to all hospice and palliative care professionals across all settings and career stages including early career and professionals in training. Selected content is intended to enrich hospice and palliative care, education, science, and practice.
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HPNF Now Accepting Emerging Leader Award Applications
The Hospice and Palliative Nurses Foundation is now accepting applications for the 2024 Emerging Leaders Award. This honor is designed to celebrate and encourage early-career hospice and palliative nurses.
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Hospice and Palliative Credentialing Center Awards $1.2 Million Impact Grant
The Hospice and Palliative Credentialing Center (HPCC) is proud to announce it has awarded a $1.2 million impact grant to the Hospice and Palliative Nurses Foundation (HPNF) in memory of the late Sandra Lee Schafer, MN, RN AOCN®, former director of credentialing at HPCC.
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Hospice and Palliative Nurses Foundation Receives $1.2 Million Impact Grant
The Hospice and Palliative Nurses Foundation (HPNF) is thrilled to announce that it has been awarded a transformative $1.2 million impact grant from the Hospice and Palliative Credentialing Center (HPCC).
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NCHPC Comments on the Hospice Proposed Rule FY25
The National Coalition for Hospice and Palliative Care highlights equitable access to high-intensity palliative care.
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Three-Part Series on Advanced Practice Registered Nurse Coding & Billing in Hospice and Palliative Care
Professional fee billing revenue is essential to sustain and grow interdisciplinary palliative care and hospice teams. While often perceived as burdensome and peripheral to patient care, billing and coding practices—when optimized—can help expand your team’s ability to provide high-quality care to the patients and caregivers you serve. Ineffective billing and coding can limit growth, and even threaten your team’s viability.
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2025 HPNA/HPNF Board of Directors Call for Applications Now Open
The Call for Applications for the 2025 HPNA/HPNF Board of Directors is now open. Candidates who have shown a significant commitment to the advancement of the art and science in the field of palliative nursing and/or philanthropy will be considered strong candidates.
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Pediatric Item Writers Needed
HPNA seeks advanced practice nurses with pediatric hospice and palliative care experience to write items for the Pediatric Core Curriculum. CHPPN® certification is preferred, but not required. Individuals will be assigned one section or chapter to write ten multiple-choice and two case study questions based on the new core curriculum content.
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Sweet Stories from Our Hive | Kristen Adelman
Adelman has been a pediatric nurse for almost 17 years and practiced in a variety of settings, including inpatient pediatrics, school health, pediatric home care, and private-duty nursing, before joining Transitions LifeCare when the kids program launched in September 2015. She became a Certified Hospice and Palliative Pediatric Nurse (CHPPN®) in 2016 and completed a Master of Science degree in palliative care in 2023 (while raising two young children).
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Sweet Stories from Our Hive | Yan Zhan
When Yan Zhan received a scholarship from the Hospice and Palliative Nurses Foundation (HPNF) to attend the 2024 Annual Assembly of Hospice and Palliative Care in Phoenix, Arizona, she was excited to network and learn from others about her specialty of care. It was her first time attending this well-known, national conference. What she didn’t expect was to come back energized with a sense of confidence, acceptance, and recognition of her work.
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University of Utah College of Nursing Supports HPNA Members
The University of Utah College of Nursing supported the Hospice and Palliative Nurses Association (HPNA) membership meeting at the 2024 Annual Assembly for Hospice and Palliative Care with a donation to the Hospice and Palliative Nurses Foundation (HPNF). The generous contribution was used to provide lunches for the first 100 HPNA members to attend the annual membership meeting. During the membership meeting, HPNA reviewed 2023 accomplishments and discussed plans for future growth, including new educational, research, leadership, and membership initiatives.
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Nursing Community Coalition Urges Congress for Support During National Nurses Week
As we celebrate National Nurses Week, May 6th – 12th, 64 members of the Nursing Community Coalition (NCC) urge Congress to support our current and future nurses, Advanced Practice Registered Nurses (APRNs), nurse leaders, boards of nursing, faculty, and scientists.
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Sweet Stories from Our Hive | Amy M. Beasley
When Amy Beasley graduated from the University of Alabama in 2008, she planned to become an emergency room nurse. But the death of her beloved grandmother led her to a career in hospice and palliative care.
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HPNA Establishes New Advanced Practice Registered Nurse (APRN) Membership Category
The Hospice and Palliative Nurses Association (HPNA) has established a new Advanced Practice Registered Nurse (APRN) member category, available to licensed APRNs.
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HPNA signs on to NCC letter thanking Sen. Merkley, Rep. Underwood for introducing the FAAN Act
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HPNA signs on to NCC letter thanking Sen. Durbin, Rep. Bonamici for introducing the Nurse Faculty Shortage Reduction Act
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HPNA signs on to NCC letter opposing CRNA restrictions in H.R. 3447/S.2070
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HPNA signs on to NCC letter to Congressional Leadership outlining FY 2024 Continuing Resolution Funding Requests for Title VIII and NINR
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Call for Abstracts – 2024 Team Conference for Hospice & Palliative Care
The Call for Abstracts for the third annual and first in-person Team Conference for Hospice and Palliative Care #TC4HPC24 is now open! Abstract submissions for oral presentations and posters will be accepted through Monday, May 20.
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HPCC March 2024 Newsletter
The latest HPCC newsletter is now available!
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Celebrate Diversity, Equity and Inclusion in Phoenix
The 2024 Annual Assembly is only weeks away! If you are attending, we encourage you to participate in the many Diversity, Equity and Inclusion (DEI) focused events.
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EPP Spotlight: Community Hospice and Palliative Care
Congratulations to Community Hospice and Palliative Care, the winner of the Employer Partner Program (EPP) Quarter 1 contest!
Community Hospice and Palliative Care shows a clear commitment to and appreciation of their nursing assistants on staff. They stated: “Not including the nursing assistants working in our general inpatient centers, we have over 75 nursing assistants working in the home and long term care settings. As you can imagine, it was impossible to narrow down to just a single nomination.”
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HPNA Liaison Appointed for Pediatric Division of NCHPC
Christy Torkildson, Ph.D., RN, PHN, FPCN, HEC-C, has been appointed as the HPNA Liaison for the Pediatric Division of the National Coalition for Hospice and Palliative Care (NCHPC).
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HPNA Member Awarded Nearly $500,000 for Research Study
HPNA member Kim Mooney-Doyle, PhD, RN, CPNP-AC, assistant professor at the University of Maryland School of Nursing (UMSON), has been awarded a two-year R21 grant of $460,000. The grant, provided by the National Institute of Nursing Research (NINR), will be used to research how understanding family communication during serious pediatric illness, from the perspective of adolescent siblings and parents, provides opportunities to prevent long-term distress.
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HPNF Launches Free Diversity in Health Care Video Series
The Hospice and Palliative Nurses Foundation (HPNF) has published a Diversity in Health Care video series for hospice and palliative care professionals that explore fundamental considerations for end-of-life care of patients who identify as Muslim, Jewish, Hindu, or Buddhist.
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HPCC January 2024 Newsletter
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2024 HPNA & HPNF Board of Directors
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2024 HPCC Board of Directors
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HPCC Announces Multiyear Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Belonging (DEIB) Strategic Initiatives
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HPNA member named to NQF Healthcare Professional Stakeholder Council
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Meet Yvonne Ruathaiwat, 2023 HPNA and HPNF Board Member
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HPCC November 2023 Newsletter
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Black Friday Bookstore Sale
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Judy Lentz Scholarship: Promoting Palliative Care for Cancer Patients
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HPCC 2024 Award Winners
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HPNA 2024 Award Winners
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HPCC Launches Digital Badging Program
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A Notice of Funding Opportunity
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HPNA signs on to NCC statement to House Committee supporting APRNs in the VA