CHPN® Certification Review (eBook, ePUB)

Comprehensive Review PLUS 320 Questions
Redaktion: Wright, Patricia Moyle

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

The second edition of CHPN® Certification Review is designed to help you prepare for the HPNA certification exam. This comprehensive study aid is organized according to the latest exam content outline and covers the full spectrum of hospice and palliative care nursing topics. Chapters include learning objectives, key points, and case studies to reinforce key topics and help you retain your knowledge. Each chapter covers everything you need to know to pass the exam and includes fully updated end-of-chapter questions to check your knowledge. The review concludes with a full-length practice test to get you ready for exam day. With a total of 300 unique questions, detailed review content and answer rationales, this essential review empowers you with the tools and materials to study your way and the confidence to pass the first time, guaranteed!

Key Features

Reflects the latest HPNA exam blueprint

Provides a comprehensive yet concise review of essential knowledge for the exam

Features valuable case studies to help reinforce key exam topics and enhance clinical judgment skills

Highlights learning objectives and key points to promote knowledge retention

Includes end-of-chapter Q&A and a full practice test with detailed rationales

Boosts your confidence with a 100% pass guarantee

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: University of California Press
• Seitenzahl: 532
• Erscheinungstermin: 24. April 2025
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780826100436
• Artikelnr.: 73955474

Autorenporträt

Patricia Moyle Wright, PhD, MBA, MSN, CRNP, ACNS-BC, CHPN, CNE, FPCN is a Professor of Nursing at The University of Scranton in Scranton, Pennsylvania, where she teaches in the undergraduate and graduate nursing programs. Dr. Wright brings her more than 25 years of experience in the field of hospice and palliative care to her teaching and truly loves to inspire students to provide the best possible care to those facing their last moments. She also continues to provide direct care to terminally ill patients through her work as a per diem hospice Nurse Practitioner. Outside of the classroom and clinical settings, Dr. Wright shares her love of end-of-life nursing care with others through her writing. She is the author of numerous articles and book chapters on issues related to end-of-life care. She is co-editor of the award-winning text Perinatal and Pediatric Bereavement in Nursing and other Health Professions (Springer Publishing), which was chosen as the 2016 AJN Book of the Year in the category of Palliative Care and Hospice. She is also the author of a ready reference text for nurses titled Fast Facts for the Hospice Nurse: A Concise Guide to End-of-Life Care, as well as Certified Hospice and Palliative Nurse (CHPN) Exam Review: A Study Guide with Questions, which was a 2020 AJN Book of the Year award-winner in the category of Palliative Care and Hospice.

Inhaltsangabe

SECTION I. TEST PREPARATION
Chapter 1. The Hospice and Palliative Nursing Examination
Chapter 2. Preparing for the Examination
SECTION II. PATIENT CARE: ASSESSMENT AND PLANNING
Chapter 3. Goals of Care and Shared Decision-Making
Chapter 4. Interdisciplinary Care Planning and Ongoing Evaluation
Chapter 5. Disease Progression and Imminent Death
SECTION III. PATIENT CARE: PAIN MANAGEMENT
Chapter 6. Pain Etiology, Types of Pain, and Pain Syndromes
Chapter 7. Pain Assessment
Chapter 8. Pain Management Interventions
SECTION IV. PATIENT CARE: SYMPTOM MANAGEMENT
Chapter 9. Neurological Symptom Management
Chapter 10. Cardiac Symptom Management
Chapter 11. Respiratory Symptom Management
Chapter 12. Gastrointestinal and Genitourinary Symptom Management
Chapter 13. Musculoskeletal Symptom Management
Chapter 14. Skin and Mucous Membrane Symptom Management
Chapter 15. Nutritional and Metabolic Symptom Management
Chapter 16. Immune, Lymphatic, and Hematologic Symptom Management
SECTION V. PATIENT AND FAMILY SUPPORT, EDUCATION, AND ADVOCACY
Chapter 17. Psychosocial, Spiritual, and Cultural Needs
Chapter 18. Patient and Caregiver Education, Support, and Advocacy
SECTION VI. PRACTICE ISSUES
Chapter 19. National Hospice and Palliative Care Standards
Chapter 20. Hospice and Palliative Care Nursing Practice Issues
SECTION VII. PRACTICE TESTS AND ANSWERS WITH RATIONALES
Chapter 21. Practice Test
Chapter 22. Practice Test: Answers and Rationales