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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Take a quick guided tour to explore a few of Kahuna’s features. You’ll see how to validate clinical competencies, close gaps, and ensure your staff is qualified to provide consistent, high-quality patient care across every unit.
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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.
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.
Kahuna’s Nursing Competency Management Supports Your Magnet® Journey
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.
Competency-Based Insights for Better Care Decisions
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.
Streamlined Competency Programs That Support Professional Growth
Develop more efficient processes for competency management programs to reduce administrative burden, increase transparency and accessibility to skill requirements, and encourage professional development and clinical ladder participation to empower staff and achieve organizational goals.
Evidence-Based Tools That Advance Clinical Excellence
Equip your nursing staff with a competency management platform and learning resources that enrich professional practice, foster continuous improvement, and support nurses in delivering exemplary care for patients and families.
Continuous Learning That Drives Practice Improvement
Ensure the latest training, policies, and evidence-based practice are accessible across the health system through digital competency management. With ongoing assessments and personalized development plans, leaders can ensure staff proficiency while promoting innovation and shared learning.
Clinical Excellence Proven Through Competency
Achieve nursing, workforce, patient, and organizational excellence on your Magnet “report card” with validated competency data that inform staffing, resource allocation, and development decisions — showing how clinical expertise translates into improved care outcomes.
FAQs
Kahuna enables healthcare systems to define and operationalize role-based clinical competencies across diverse roles and specialties. Using digital assessments, including structured observations, peer reviews, and supervisor validations, Kahuna ensures that staff are evaluated based on standardized criteria. Real-time team matrices and readiness dashboards give leaders immediate visibility into individual and unit-level competency status, helping improve competency-based staffing, patient care quality, and regulatory preparedness.
Yes. Kahuna supports compliance with Joint Commission, Magnet, and state board requirements by enabling structured, role-based assessments and maintaining audit-ready records. The platform automates reassessment cycles, tracks certification expirations, and centralizes validation data. This ensures organizations can demonstrate staff competency, support reaccreditation processes, and respond confidently to audits.
Kahuna is designed to integrate with your existing tech stack, including your HRI, LMS, LXP, and EHR platforms. These integrations allow you to pull in training data, link assessments to completed education, and sync staff and role records for a unified view of workforce readiness.
Kahuna supports a wide range of assessment types aligned to clinical roles and regulatory standards. These include preceptor-led validations, self-assessments, peer reviews, experiential logs, and manager evaluations. Each assessment type can be configured to fit the competency being measured, ensuring consistency and accuracy across the organization.
With Kahuna, organizations can standardize orientation and onboarding programs to align with role-specific competency requirements. As new hires join, competencies are automatically assigned based on their role and unit, and progress is tracked digitally. This gives educators, managers, and orientees real-time insights into onboarding status. Kahuna also allows nurses to receive credit for prior knowledge and validated experience, helping avoid unnecessary retraining and accelerating time to independent practice.