CHPN Certified Jobs
HPCC certifies registered nurses in hospice and palliative work as CHPNs. The nursing is symptom control and the conversations around it, and a Medicare-certified hospice has to make nursing routinely available 24 hours a day, 7 days a week.
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Two words in a title decide where the posting lands
Hospice RN case manager comes to rest on the general registered nurse page. The classifier walks its roles in declaration order, registered nurse sits ahead of case manager, and the first keyword to match wins. Write the same job as hospice nurse case manager and it goes to case management, because bare nurse is a keyword of neither. Neither of those 2 roles keys on the word hospice; the aide role does, and hospice CNA lands on a page of its own. This list gathers by the credential.
Your questions about CHPN certified jobs, answered
- What does HPCC want before I can sit the CHPN?
An unrestricted RN license and the hours behind it: 500 hours of hospice and palliative nursing practice in the most recent 12 months, or 1,000 hours in the most recent 24. There's no course to take first, so the eligibility question is entirely about what your last 2 years of nursing actually were.
- Does the practice have to be in a hospice?
It has to be hospice and palliative nursing practice, which is about the care, not the employer's name. Palliative teams in hospitals, home-based palliative programs and inpatient units all do it, and a general medical floor with occasional dying patients is a harder case to make. Ask HPCC before counting hours you're unsure of.
- Is CHPN the credential a hospice aide posting means?
Usually not, and one letter causes it. CHPN is the registered nurse credential; the assistant one is CHPNA, and an aide posting naming CHPN has almost certainly dropped the A. Read the license level in the posting before deciding which exam you're aiming at.