Competency Management Software for Healthcare
All in One Platform
Say goodbye to binders and hello to Kahuna! Manual, time-burdensome competency management processes for nurse orientation and annual assessments are a thing of the past. Digitize your skills checklists to gain visibility into validated skills data that ensures nurse competency, makes staffing more efficient, improves audit readiness, and engages your nursing staff.
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Trusted by Leading Healthcare Organizations
We work with organizations that rely on validated skills and competency data to make operations effective, efficient, and safe.
Build a Competency-Based Organization
Remove Manual Processes Tied to Legacy Methods of Competency Management
Digitizing your competency management checklists means less time tracking down paperwork, and more time learning, educating, and caring for patients at the bedside.
Employees
Give nurses transparency into their role expectations and requirements, and empower them to own their professional development.
Managers
Spend less time on administrative tasks and focus on educating, cross-training, and mobilizing the right resources to care for patients.
Executives
Evaluate your workforce capabilities, plan for future demands, and gain visibility into competency-based staffing with meaningful reporting.
The All-In-One Competency Management Platform
Manage Nurse Competencies, Engage and Develop Your Staff, and Prove Compliance
Paper-based competency tracking can’t keep pace with today’s nursing shortages, turnover, and evolving patient needs. Kahuna’s cloud-based skills and competency management platform centralizes and automates competency workflows, so nurses can access up-to-date requirements and learning on any device. Leaders gain real-time visibility into skills progression and gaps across individuals, teams, or the entire system, ensuring the right clinician is deployed where they’re needed most. And because it integrates natively with Kahuna Ladder, you get a seamless digital clinical ladder for nurses and allied health professionals.
Streamline Competency Assignments
Digitize Orientation and Annual Assessments
Gain complete visibility into competency progression and proficiency levels for an individual, team, or unit, assign competencies based on roles and responsibilities, and identify qualified preceptors for orientees.
Prove Compliance Easily
Prepare for Audits and Surveys
Keep track of nursing competence and assessments in one digitized competency tool to easily identify non-compliance, pull reports for Joint Commission Audits and Regulatory surveyors, and ensure regulated roles have the right coverage at all times.
Validate Bedside Experience
Determine Nurse Competence
Advance nurse competence with EHR-integrated experience data, reducing time to competence, and minimizing redundancies by linking recertification requirements with validated EHR records.
Train, Develop, and Mobilize Nurses
Identify Skills and Competency Gaps
Identify skills gaps at the individual, unit, or system level to strategically plan reskilling, upskilling, or cross-training programs, meet role requirements, enable nurse mobility across units in dynamic healthcare environments, and engage nurses with their professional development.
Kahuna Ladder
Digitalize Your Clinical Ladder
Streamline clinician development and retention with Kahuna Ladder, your digital clinical ladder platform. Automate paperwork, consolidate all your data, and empower nurses and allied health professionals while supporting Magnet® and Pathway to Excellence® designations.
Does Skills Management Help Retain Nurses?
WEBINAR ON-DEMAND
Nurse burnout rates are soaring at 70%. That’s a 30% increase since the start of the pandemic. What is your health system doing to combat this and support your nursing staff?
Join us as we talk with NPDs from Lurie Children’s Hospital of Chicago and explore how they’re using skills management to:
- Increase Nurse Mobility
- Decrease Nursing Burnout
- Empower Development and Promote Within
Kahuna’s Nursing Competency Management Supports Your Magnet® Journey
Empower Your Nursing Staff and Elevate Patient Care
Achieving Magnet status is a testament to a health system’s commitment to its nursing staff, patients, and community. Digitizing competency management enhances this commitment by providing a scalable, efficient, and competency-based approach to continuous learning and quality improvement, ensuring your nursing staff is always equipped with the latest skills and knowledge to deliver quality patient care.
Empower leaders with competency-based insights to guide staffing, training, and care decisions, ensuring your health system provides quality patient care now, and in the future, even in a dynamic healthcare environment.
Equip your nursing staff with a competency management tool and learning resources that enrich their professional practice, empower them to continuously improve in their roles, and provide exemplary care for patients and their families.
Ensure the latest training, policies, research, and evidence-based practice are documented and available to staff throughout the health system with digitized competency management. With regular skills assessments and personalized training plans, leaders can ensure staff are proficient in their required skills while encouraging knowledge sharing and development to improve patient care quality continuously.
Achieve quality nursing, workforce, patient, and organizational outcomes on your Magnet “report card” using validated competency insights to drive staffing, resource allocation, and development decisions, and demonstrate measurable improvements in patient care quality.