IGNOU CNH HPC 001 Practical for CHBHC: 16 Skills, Diary, Hours and Exam

IGNOU CNH HPC 001 Practical: the CHBHC course IGNOU prints as CNS-HCP 001

IGNOU CNH HPC 001 Practical is the search phrase for the practical course IGNOU prints as CNS-HCP 001, Skills Related to Home Based Care, in the Certificate in Home Based Health Care (CHBHC). The School of Health Sciences runs CHBHC as a 6-month programme of 14 credits for 10th pass learners, in English or Hindi: CNS-HC 001 Home Based Care is the 4-credit theory course and CNS-HCP 001 is the 10-credit practical.

Some of IGNOU’s question paper folders file this certificate’s CNS-HC 001 papers under CHBCP (the June 2010 paper is headed Certificate Programme for Home Based Care Providers) and others under CHBHC, the current programme code; the theory paper code CNS-HC 001 is the same in both. The prospectus writes it as CNS-HCP 1, the programme page as CNS-HCP-001 and both manuals as CNS – HCP 001.

Across practical courses, the hands-on part worries learners far more than the theory paper, and some who write the theory paper with ease get held up in the practical. In CHBHC, 10 of the 14 credits sit in CNS-HCP 001.

Many learners who write to us discover late in the session that their programme has a practical part. CHBHC’s prospectus entry lists CNS-HCP 001, a 10-credit practical, beside the 4-credit theory course, and the programme page places both in Semester 1.

Ninety percent of the contact sessions, or no practical examination

For the IGNOU CNH HPC 001 Practical, the CHBHC Programme Guide asks for 90 percent attendance in the practical contact sessions to become eligible for the practical examination. It sets the same 90 percent for theory counselling and calls counselling attendance compulsory for the term-end examination. The prospectus states the general IGNOU rule in plainer words: attendance at practical sessions is compulsory, and the Learner Support Centre provides the schedule.

The guide does not say whether missed practical sessions can be made up. If you already know a week of the spell clashes with work, raise it with your Programme Study Centre before the spell starts, not after.

Most learners who reach us have a job, a household to run, or both. Theory counselling tends to be treated as optional while practical sessions usually are not, and a missed practical can push a learner back by a full session. For CNS-HCP 001, the guide links your place in the practical examination to the attendance figure above.

Looking across programmes, three causes stand out at our desk: rules reach learners late and differ by centre, practical work expects time and travel that distance learners find hard to give, and the record gets handled as paperwork though its purpose is to show applied skill. CNS-HCP 001 asks for about 19 days of supervised sessions on top of self-practice.

IGNOU CNH HPC 001 Practical hours: 150 supervised, 150 on your own

The IGNOU CNH HPC 001 Practical carries 300 study hours (10 credits at 30 hours a credit). The guide’s structure table splits them into 150 supervised activity hours and 150 self-activity hours. Learners are placed in a hospital, Community Health Centre, NGO or nursing set-up for the supervised 150 hours, which the guide puts at almost 19 days; each practical session lasts 4 hours. It allows the supervised period to be divided into two spells, depending on what the institution or Programme Study Centre can manage.

Programme Study Centres for CHBHC sit in schools of nursing and in NGOs or hospitals with 20 to 50 beds, with 30 seats per centre, and the guidance comes from academic counsellors IGNOU identifies and trains. Self-practice happens at your work place, at home or in your neighbourhood, after the procedure has been demonstrated at the centre; the guide asks you to clear doubts at the centre before you start practising alone.

We hear from learners who followed a friend’s advice from another study centre and found their own centre worked differently. For CNS-HCP 001 that is built in: the guide lets each institution or Programme Study Centre decide whether the supervised hours run as one spell or two.

Practical sessions run on fixed dates, often as full days over a stretch, and sometimes far from home; learners who do not keep checking the notices miss their batch and wait for the next one. CHBHC sessions are 4 hours each, and the schedule comes from your study centre, so ask there how the spells are set for your batch.

Working learners often ask whether practice at their own workplace counts. For the self-practice half of CNS-HCP 001, the guide itself says you keep the diary during self-practice at your work place; the supervised half is at the centre where you are placed.

Skills Related to Home Based Care: the 16 skills in two manuals

Skills Related to Home Based Care is taught through Practical Manual I (Skills 1 to 8, April 2010) and Practical Manual II (Skills 9 to 16, June 2010), which together form the IGNOU CNH HPC 001 Practical. Each skill ends with an Activities section, and those activities are what you actually carry out. The table puts each skill beside the hours the guide gives it and what its closing activities ask.

Learners often bring us three versions of one instruction: the manual’s, the counsellor’s and a senior’s. For CNS-HCP 001 the activity counts in the two manuals are the printed version, and where two lines in a manual differ (Skill 1 asks for five interviews in one activity box and two in the closing list), ask your counsellor which count your batch should follow.

Practical write-ups usually follow a set order, and leaving one part out costs marks. The CNS-HCP 001 history taking skill prints its own order: identification data, chief complaints, history of present illness, past history of illness, family history and social history, followed by recreation, sleep and similar items, with a sample format to compare against.

Work a supervisor, teacher or doctor has to see

Several CNS-HCP 001 activities are not meant to be done alone, and the IGNOU CNH HPC 001 Practical manuals say so in the activity itself. These are the lines that name a second person:

• Skill 4: five patients’ temperature, pulse and respiration readings checked or verified by your supervisor.
• Skill 5: blood pressure of five hospital patients, checked by the supervisor.
• Skill 7: chest physiotherapy under supervision.
• Skill 8: subcutaneous insulin injections given in the presence of the teacher.
• Skills 11 and 12: a suppository advised by the doctor, and oxygen and nebulisation given on the doctor’s written order.
• Skill 14: dry and moist heat for a patient selected with the teacher’s help.

History taking adds one more boundary. Practical Manual I says physical examination of the body systems is done by a doctor and that the home care provider assists; your part is the interview, observation and the TPR and BP readings.

We often see practical records where the supervisor’s or counsellor’s check was left unsigned. In CNS-HCP 001, the Skill 4 and Skill 5 readings are the ones the manual asks a supervisor to check, so get that check done on the day you take them.

Where a practical involves readings or tests, the errors we notice are wrong working, the wrong reference figure and a remark that does not match the reading. In CNS-HCP 001 such points include the Centigrade to Fahrenheit conversion in Skill 4 and the urine sugar and albumin and blood sugar tests in Skill 9.

Some learners fill in readings they assumed rather than took. The TPR and blood pressure activities in CNS-HCP 001 Practical Manual I name how many patients to measure and which readings your supervisor checks, so each figure in your diary should be one you measured.

The diary the PSC counsellor marks

Inside the course, the IGNOU CNH HPC 001 Practical rests on one record: your diary. The guide asks you to maintain a diary during self-practice at your work place and during supervised practice at the Work Centre or Programme Study Centre, to maintain a record of all the cases you see, and says the counsellor at the Programme Study Centre evaluates the diary. The manuals use it too: Skill 1 asks you to summarise patient information in a diary, and Skill 6 asks you to note each patient’s name and the position you gave.

Neither the guide nor the manuals print a diary format, page count or cover page. The closest model is the TPR recording table in Skill 4, with columns for date, time, temperature, pulse, respiration and remarks, and the history taking format in Skill 1. A diary that follows those two shapes and adds what you did for each patient is easy for a counsellor to read.

The written record is where practical marks slip away most easily, and it is also the part a learner can fix. In CNS-HCP 001, the diary carries the self-practice and supervised-practice marks that the counsellor awards.

Before: “Visited the patient and gave care.” After: “Gave a bed bath and back care to a bed-ridden patient, following the Skill 3 steps, and checked the pressure points.” The second line ties the day to a CNS-HCP 001 procedure, which is what a counsellor reads for.

A daily record written in one evening at the end gives itself away: the same sentences, dates that fall on holidays and no change from the first entry to the last. A CNS-HCP 001 diary covers about 19 supervised days plus your self-practice, so write each entry on the day.

How the IGNOU CNH HPC 001 Practical reaches 100 marks

The CHBHC Programme Guide gives CNS-HCP 001 100 marks in three parts. Continuous evaluation is the self-practice and supervised-practice work, which together carry half the weight, and the term-end practical examination carries the other half. Each part has its own minimum.

The guide asks for 50 percent marks separately in continuous evaluation and in the term-end examination, so a strong examination does not make up for a weak diary. The Programme In-charge of the Programme Study Centre compiles the self and supervised practice marks and sends them to the Regional Centre or the Student Evaluation Division. The theory course CNS-HC 001 is marked apart from this: a 70-mark, three-hour term-end paper and one assignment.

The 50-mark examination at your practical centre

The IGNOU CNH HPC 001 Practical examination is held at the centre where you had your practical contact sessions, before or after the theory examination. A panel of an external and an internal examiner is appointed to conduct it, and it carries 50 marks. The guide does not print the pattern: no case count, station list or viva marks appear for CNS-HCP 001, so ask your Programme Study Centre how its panel runs the day.

Carry your IGNOU student identity card. The guide asks for it at the examination, and the prospectus requires a valid IGNOU Student ID card at the examination centre.

Learners regularly ask us whether their practical has a viva. For CNS-HCP 001, the CHBHC guide describes a 50-mark examination by two examiners and does not mention a viva, so the honest answer is to ask your centre how the panel will assess you.

The learners who handle practicals well begin in good time, check how their own centre works, date an entry each day, collect each signature on the spot and can talk through each page unaided. For CNS-HCP 001 that means the diary, the supervisor-checked Skill 4 and Skill 5 readings and the steps of each procedure you practised.

CNS-HC 001 theory reading on our shelf

We do not sell anything for the IGNOU CNH HPC 001 Practical itself: its marks come from your own sessions, diary and examination. What we stock for CHBHC is reading for the theory paper, CNS-HC 001 Home Based Care, which is a 70-mark, three-hour term-end paper.

Status, result, assignment and study material: what CHBHC learners search

IGNOU CNH HPC 001 Practical fee: the Rs 500 slab and 30 November 2026

The IGNOU CNH HPC 001 Practical is a 10-credit course, so under the prospectus fee rule for practical examinations it falls in the above-4-credit slab of Rs 500 (the rule applies from the January 2023 admission cycle); the theory examination fee is Rs 200 per theory course. The prospectus asks for these with the term-end examination form and says an examination fee once paid is neither refundable nor adjustable. The CHBHC guide still prints an older figure of Rs 50 per course and a programme fee of Rs 2,400; the current prospectus and programme page give Rs 2,900 for the full programme.

For the December 2026 term-end examination, SED’s notice on IGNOU’s announcements page gives 30 November 2026 as the last date for the project, internship and practical course fee, paid only through your Samarth Portal login, with no fee accepted after that date.

Many learners mix up the Rs 300 and Rs 500 fee amounts. CNS-HCP 001 carries 10 credits, so the prospectus slab that applies is the Rs 500 one.

At our desk, 70 to 80 percent of learners get moving only in the final month before a last date, and with a November date most of them start in October. For CHBHC learners taking the December 2026 practical, SED’s last date for the practical course fee is 30 November 2026.

Some learners count on IGNOU moving each last date by a month and plan around the second date. For a CHBHC learner, SED’s notice on the project, internship and practical course fee for the December 2026 TEE says no fee is accepted after 30 November 2026.

Your patients, your readings, your diary

The IGNOU CNH HPC 001 Practical tests whether you can give care, so the diary only works when it records care you gave. Each reading, position and dressing in it should trace back to a patient you saw during a supervised session or your own self-practice.

Ready-made practical files and diaries are passed around online, and some learners submit one after changing just their name and enrolment details; matching pages from several learners at one centre stand out at once. In CNS-HCP 001, the counsellor at your Programme Study Centre evaluates the diary.

Some learners hand in AI-written text as it is, one more reason the same wording keeps turning up. A CNS-HCP 001 diary records patients from your own locality, ward or work place, and no tool can supply those.

That is the IGNOU CNH HPC 001 Practical in one line: attend the contact sessions, practise the 16 skills on real patients, write the diary as you go and take the 50-mark examination at your centre.