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Your Care Plan and Safety Portfolio

The capstone project for Caregiving & Home Nursing Assistant: Safe, Skilled Care for Elders, Patients and Children — a free Trades course. Pass it and you earn a certificate anyone can verify.

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The project unlocks once you complete the lessons. The workbook is free to download now so you can see exactly what is expected.

What you will submit

One document (Google Doc, PDF or Word, shared with view access) containing all six parts, with the routine, the skin-check schedule and the escalation plan as tables. No real names or identifying details of any person you care for.

What to do, step by step

  1. Part 1 — The person and the assessment (250-350 words): describe one person you care for or realistically would (age, condition, mobility, continence, eating, memory, who else is involved). Use no real name and no identifying detail. State what they can do themselves, what they need help with, and what they must never be left to do alone.
  2. Part 2 — The daily routine: an hour-by-hour plan for one full day covering waking, washing, dressing, meals and fluids, toileting, activity and rest, with the person's own preferences recorded, because a routine that ignores preference is not care.
  3. Part 3 — Moving, handling and pressure areas: how you would move or transfer this person, what equipment or help you would use, what you would never attempt alone, and a repositioning and skin-check schedule with the specific places you would inspect and what a developing pressure sore looks like at its earliest stage.
  4. Part 4 — Infection control and medicines: your hand-hygiene and cleaning routine, how you would handle soiled linen and waste, and a medicines-support log showing what you would record. State explicitly what you will never do: prescribe, adjust a dose, share someone else's medicine, or give anything a prescriber has not authorised.
  5. Part 5 — The escalation plan: a list of specific warning signs for this person that mean stop and get help, each paired with exactly who you would call and how fast. Include at minimum breathing difficulty, chest pain, a fall with possible injury, sudden confusion, stroke signs, choking, bleeding that will not stop, a burn, and a fever in a baby. Give the real contact route you would use.
  6. Part 6 — Limits and sign-off (200-300 words): write honestly about what this plan does not qualify you to do and where a nurse or doctor must take over. Then have a named qualified health worker (nurse, doctor, community health extension worker or a licensed trainer) read the plan, and record their name, role, place of work and what they corrected or confirmed, with the date.

Files to work with

Project workbook (fill in, then submit)The whole brief, an evidence checklist, the grading rubric as a self-check and the link-sharing steps in one file. Opens in Word, Google Docs or WPS.Word · 7 KB

How it is graded

CriterionWeight
The assessment is specific, dignified and correctly separates what the person can and cannot do15%
The daily routine is practical and records the person's own preferences15%
Moving, handling and pressure-area plans are safe, specific and admit what needs help20%
Infection control and medicines support are correct, with the never-do limits stated explicitly20%
The escalation plan names real warning signs, real contacts and realistic speed20%
The limits section is honest and a named qualified health worker has reviewed and signed off10%

You need 70% overall to pass. A human examiner also reviews this safety-critical project before any certificate is issued. A failed submission comes back with feedback and can be revised and resubmitted.

Before you submit: make your link public

If your work lives in Google Drive or Google Docs, open Share → General access and change “Restricted” to “Anyone with the link” (Viewer). Then paste the link into a private browser window: if it opens without sign-in, you are ready. A private link cannot be graded — it is the single most common reason a good project fails.

Frequently asked questions

Do I have to finish Caregiving & Home Nursing Assistant: Safe, Skilled Care for Elders, Patients and Children before submitting the project?

Yes. The submission screen opens once every lesson in Caregiving & Home Nursing Assistant: Safe, Skilled Care for Elders, Patients and Children is marked complete. The lessons are where the methods, the Nigerian context and the worked examples the project depends on are taught.

How is the project graded?

An examiner scores each rubric criterion from 0 to 100 and weights them as shown on this page; you need 70% overall to pass. Because this is a safety-critical trade, a human examiner also reviews every submission before a certificate is issued.

Can I resubmit if I fail?

Yes. A failed project comes back with feedback; revise the weak parts and resubmit. A passed project is final — the certificate is issued and cannot be re-rolled.

What do I actually submit?

A write-up of what you did (under 5,000 characters) plus a public link to your work — a Google Drive folder, Google Doc, spreadsheet, GitHub repository or video. The link must open without sign-in; a private link cannot be graded. The free project workbook on this page walks you through all 6 steps.

Is the certificate real?

Yes. Passing this project issues a certificate with a unique verification code. Anyone — an employer, a client, a school — can open the verification page and see that the certificate is genuine and which project earned it.

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