CHPNA Certified Jobs
CHPNA is the certified hospice and palliative nursing assistant credential from HPCC, and the job under it is aide work in the last months of a life, at home or in a nursing facility.
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Assessed every 14 days, watched once a year
Two scheduled visits sit behind a hospice aide's file, and both are about the aide. A registered nurse comes to the patient's home at least every 14 days to judge the quality of the care and services the aide provides and whether what the interdisciplinary group ordered still meets the patient's needs (42 CFR 418.76(h)), and the aide doesn't have to be there. The annual one is observed, and made where the patient is receiving care. A noted concern adds another observed visit, and a verified one sends the aide back through a competency evaluation.
Your questions about CHPNA certified jobs, answered
- Which HPCC credential matches my license?
There's one per level, and postings mix them up. HPCC certifies nursing assistants as CHPNA, licensed practical and vocational nurses as CHPLN, registered nurses as CHPN, advanced practice nurses as ACHPN and pediatric registered nurses as CHPPN. A hospice aide posting asking for CHPN almost certainly means the assistant credential.
- What counts as qualifying practice?
Hospice and palliative nursing assistant practice, supervised, in the period before you apply. That's narrower than working in a facility that happens to have hospice patients, so the hours a nursing home aide accumulates may or may not count depending on the assignment. The CHPNA guide has the hour counts and the exam.
- Does it change what I'm allowed to do?
No. Your state's nurse aide certification sets the scope and the employer's policy fills in the rest, and CHPNA says you've spent measured time in hospice and palliative work and passed an exam on it. It shows up in preferred qualifications and in senior aide postings.