Nursing Competency Checklists

Digitize Your Competency Management Program

Kahuna’s competency management platform combined with Mayo Clinic’s TSAM® Orientation Model will generate a starting point for health systems looking to digitize their competency management processes.

Nursing Competency Checklists

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Kahuna Collaborates With Mayo Clinic To Transform Clinical Orientation and Digitized Competency Management

TSAM® Product Package

The TSAM® Model is a structured approach to clinical orientation, allowing preceptees to learn and master tiers of skills alongside a preceptor in the clinical setting. This methodology exposes preceptees to a full patient load from the beginning of orientation and adjusts orientation to the individual’s learning needs. Studies have cited how the TSAM® Model increases nurse confidence, role satisfaction and nurse retention, reduces the overall orientation length, and increases the number of patient experiences for each preceptee.

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Package 1

General Care, Surgical Services, Obstetrics/Labor & Delivery/Special Care Nursery

Package 2

Critical Care, Progressive Care, Outpatient Procedural Emergency Department

Package 3

Ambulatory, Psychiatric/Mental Health, Nusing Leadership Roles, Social Worker Role

Digitize Nursing Competency Checklists with Kahuna

Curate, Assign, Assess, and Develop—In One Easy-to-Use Dashboard!

Each phase of the competency management process is critical in your competency program. If designed and implemented with your business needs in mind, your organization has the opportunity to leverage trusted skills data to identify talent and gain a better understanding of your workforce capability.

1. Curate and Standardize Skills Frameworks

Curation is the development, maintenance, and evolution of your organization’s skills framework.

Curate and Standardize Skills Frameworks

Curation makes sure your skills library and job roles are relevant to the business, and involves reviewing, adding, or archiving content periodically to keep the framework up to date.
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3. Assess Employee Proficiency

Evaluate employees based on their assigned skills to determine proficiency levels.

Assess Employee Proficiency

This process can look very different depending on how you structure your skills framework or the reasons for tracking the skill. Clarify who should be assessing and what should trigger the assessment.
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2. Assign Skills Based on Job Roles

Determine which skills are required for each employee based on their job role.

Assign Skills Based on Job Roles

Traditionally, assignment is done manually. As organizations mature their skills management programs, a digitized system like Kahuna is needed to automate the more complex skill and role assignments.
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4. Train, Develop, and Close Skills Gaps

Identify gaps and leverage resources like mentors or on-the-job experiences and trainings to achieve the desired level of proficiency.

Train, Develop, and Close Skills Gaps

Development is key in operational environments where a skills gap could increase the cost of poor quality or jeopardize the safety of the team. It’s important that your employees, managers, and those responsible for driving development have access to accurate skills gap data and the tools needed to close those gaps.
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Seamless Integrations

Powerful integrations with your existing systems.

Competency Assessment Software

Organizations use competency assessment software to capture, assess, and manage the knowledge, skills, and abilities of employees. Key features of Kahuna’s competency management and assessment tool include:

SKILLS-GAP-ANALYSIS

Skills Matrix

Understand skills and capabilities at an employee, team, or organizational level in one dashboard view.

Skills Gap Analysis

Identify skills gaps and opportunities for employee development. Create targeted training programs to close skills gaps on time.

Competency Assessment

Use flexible assessment forms and quizzes, competency checklists, on-the-job experience, and learning inferences to assess employee competency. 

Talent Finder

Identify employees with the right skills and competencies for each job. Quickly backfill roles in the case of attrition or unplanned absence. 

Training Programs

Integrate required competencies with learning and training materials. Employees can quickly access and understand which competency requirements these resources coordinate with.

Career Paths

Provide transparency for employees to explore career path options within the business. Create development plans or clinical ladder programs that will keep them on track.

COMPETENCY-ASSESSMENT-TOOL

Frequently Asked Questions About Competency Management Software

Competency management is the process of identifying, managing, and developing workforce skills, knowledge, and experiences. Following a competency framework aligned to organizational needs, business leaders can make more informed and strategic decisions for talent management and operational capability.

A competency framework is the foundation for a competency management program. It ensures consistency in how skills, knowledge, and experiences are aligned with job roles and how proficiency is measured. Often, leaders in Human Resources, Learning and Development, and Operations work together to create a cohesive competency framework that reflects business goals. Using competency management software to manage the content ensures consistency across the business units, geographic locations, and operating environments.

Competency management systems include a variety of user-friendly features designed to help organizations manage, assess, and develop employee competencies. Features include a competency framework, skills matrix, employee dashboard, competency assessments, development plans, talent finder, analytics, and mobile functionality.

Competency management software helps organizations manage and develop their workforce’s skills and competencies to align them with business goals and ensure a skilled, more capable workforce.

Competency management in a digitized platform ensures employees, managers, and leaders can access the right skills and competency data on any device, anytime and anywhere. No more chasing down files and folders or Excel data. Whether at the bedside, on the plant floor, on the rig, or in the field, digitized competency management software provides transparent, validated skills and competency data to increase operational safety and quality, and help employees in their learning and development.

Competency Management Software for Clinical Staff

Kahuna supports your full competency management program. Ensure competency assurance and development across your organization in one digitized platform.

Competency Development

Competency Assurance