Chpn Exam Secrets Study Guide: Unofficial Chpn Test Review for the Certified Hospice and Palliative Nurse Examination 1 Pap / Psc edition

***Includes Practice Test Questions***

Get the test prep help you need to become a Certified Hospice and Palliative Nurse (CHPN).

The CHPN exam is extremely challenging and thorough test preparation is essential for success. CHPN Exam Secrets Study Guide is the ideal prep solution for anyone who wants to pass the CHPN exam.

Not only does it provide a comprehensive guide to the CHPN exam as a whole, it also provides practice test questions as well as detailed explanations of each answer.

CHPN Exam Secrets Study Guide includes:

• A thorough and detailed overview of hospice and palliative care.
• An in-depth look at life-limiting conditions in adult patients.
• A review of different methods of pain management.
• A review of different methods of symptom management.
• An extensive guide to dealing with the care of both the patient and the family.
• An analysis of both the necessary education and advocacy.
• A examination to interdisciplinary and collaborative practice.
• A breakdown of professional issues.
• Comprehensive practice questions with detailed answer explanations

It's filled with the critical information you'll need in order to do well on the test the concepts, procedures, principles, and vocabulary that the National Board for Certification of Hospice and Palliative Nurses (NBCHPN) expects you to have mastered before sitting for the exam.

The Life-Limiting Conditions in Adult Patients section includes:

• AIDS dementia complex (ADC)
• Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS)
• Leukemia
• Liver failure
• Parkinson disease

The Pain Management section includes:

• Assessing pain
• Addiction and pseudoaddiction
• Dependence
• Pain documentation
• Conscious sedation

The Symptom Management section includes:

• Anxiety
• Congestive heart failure
• Cystic fibrosis (CF)
• Dementia
• Pneumocystis carinii pneumonia (PCP)

The Care of Patient and Family section includes:

• Palliative care
• Hospice
• National Consensus Project (NCP) goals
• Developmental landmarks
• NCP Clinical Practice Guidelines

The Education and Advocacy section includes:

• Advocating for hospice care
• Advanced care planning
• Advance directives
• Ethical Issues
• Principles of adult learning

The Interdisciplinary/ Collaborative Practice section includes:

• Conflict negotiation
• Palliative care success elements
• Care team conflicts
• SUPPORT study
• Appropriate referral times

The Professional Issues section includes:

• Ethics
• Euthanasia
• Care path process
• Assisted suicide
• Nurses and burnout

These sections are full of specific and detailed information that will be key to passing the CHPN exam. Concepts and principles aren't simply named or described in passing, but are explained in detail. The guide is laid out in a logical and organized fashion so that one section naturally flows from the one preceding it. Because it's written with an eye for both technical accuracy and accessibility, you will not have to worry about getting lost in dense academic language.

Any test prep guide is only as good as its practice questions and answers, and that's another area where our guide stands out. Our test designers have provided scores of test questions that will prepare you for what to expect on the actual CHPN exam. Each answer is explained in depth, in order to make the principles and reasoning behind it crystal clear.