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.

"Great company to work with! Great customer service. Always a prompt reply to questions or concerns. Better transparency for all those involved in the professional development of our nurses."

NICU NPD Practitioner,

Lurie Children's

“I like the ability to see my team status in a single pane. Their dashboard is helpful in gap closure planning. Kahuna integrates skill data with our other software. It's a great platform all-around.”

Clinical Operations & Education,

Intermountain

“Kahuna enables us to standardize our clinical skills and nurse competency management processes while giving us flexibility in how we assign, assess, and develop our clinical staff in a variety of roles.”

Informatics Manager, PD,

Stanford Children's

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

Build a skills-based organization for employees.

Give nurses transparency into their role expectations and requirements, and empower them to own their professional development. 

Managers

Build a skills-based organization for nurse educators.

Spend less time on administrative tasks and focus on educating, cross-training, and mobilizing the right resources to care for patients.

Executives

Build a skills-based organization for 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

In today’s dynamic healthcare environment, marked by high nursing shortages, turnover, and evolving patient needs, relying on paper to track competencies means constantly chasing the latest information for your clinical staff—information that will likely be outdated by the time you find it.

Kahuna’s cloud-based competency management platform streamlines your workflow, making competency management processes more efficient, accessible, and transparent. Accessible on any device within your health system, our platform keeps nurses connected to their competency and learning journey at all times. Leaders can easily access a comprehensive view of competency progression and skills gaps for individuals, units, or the entire system, ensuring the right clinician is mobilized to provide high-quality care to the right patient.

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.

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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.

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.