Pass on Day One, a reference rather than a course
- Last revised
Pass on Day One is free to use and written for working professionals heading into a certification exam in hospice and palliative nursing, addiction counseling or sleep technology. For each exam it sets out what is tested, how scoring works, who qualifies, how booking runs and what keeping the credential involves. Beside every figure sits its source and the date we checked it, and practice questions come with a note on each answer choice.
On this page 4 sections
The name is an aim
The name describes what a well-prepared candidate wants: to sit the exam once and know beforehand how many questions there are, how long the clock runs and what the cut score means. It is not a promise about your result, and no page here makes one.
HPCC and BRPT publish pass rates for their exams; IC&RC publishes none in the documents we read. The published rates are compared in the exam directory.
Four exams in three fields
The site opened with these exams, and each has five pages: an overview, a quiz that costs nothing, a study guide organized by outline section, an exam-format page and a registration page.
- Hospice and palliative nursing: the RN credential CHPN and the advanced practice credential ACHPN, both from HPCC.
- Addiction counseling: the IC&RC ADC exam, which state and regional boards use for titles such as CADC, CAC or LADC.
- Sleep technology: the BRPT registry exam, RPSGT.
Related credentials are named where they help you choose, but have no pages of their own yet: HPCC's CHPLN, CHPPN and CHPNA, IC&RC's AADC and peer recovery credentials, and BRPT's CPSGT and CCSH.
What you will find here, and what you will not
On every exam's pages you can expect:
- fact tables whose rows each cite a document and a reading date;
- a free practice test with an explanation under every option, wrong ones included;
- a study guide arranged by the sections of the outline the exam uses today, with each section's share;
- the booking steps, fees and retake rules as the board and its test vendor publish them.
Things the site does not offer: courses, paid tiers, accounts, apps, advertising, or questions said to be recalled from a live exam. It does not interpret state licensing law; where a state board decides, as it does for addiction counselors, the page says so and points to that board.
Who stands behind it
Pass on Day One is an independent publisher. It is not owned, paid or reviewed by HPCC, HPNA, IC&RC or any of its member boards, BRPT, or the test vendors PSI, Prometric and Pearson VUE, and nobody buys a place on its pages.
Pages carry the brand rather than individual bylines. In place of names you get a method you can verify. Our editorial policy covers sources and dates, and how we review lists what each practice question must survive.