Competency-based nursing, from real patient encounters.
Every student-patient encounter produces observed, scored, timestamped evidence aligned to the AACN Essentials.
Your self-study needs competency evidence. Here is what most programs have instead.
Simulation is practice, not proof
AACN's own guidance treats simulation as a formative learning strategy, not the summative record. A sim lab can teach the skill. It doesn't produce evidence that a specific student demonstrated it with a patient.
Faculty observation doesn't scale, and doesn't agree with itself
Watching one interaction at a time and scribbling notes is the modality AACN actually wants, and it's the one most programs can't staff. Three faculty watching the same interaction give three different scores, not from carelessness, just because human attention isn't uniform.
Clinical site capacity is the real ceiling
Placement sites are starting to ask programs to certify readiness before they'll take students, and for most programs, site availability limits enrollment more than classroom seats do. No readiness data means no proof, and a site that stops taking your students is lost revenue, not just a scheduling problem.
There was no way to document how students actually communicate with patients. Now there's a record.
Record. Analyze. Improve.
Three steps from a real patient conversation to an NCSBN-aligned assessment report, no faculty hours required.
Record the interaction
Students record authentic patient conversations on any phone or desktop, in the sim lab, clinical prep course, or active placement. Faculty can also upload a video. The platform then reports what the student did, not only what they said.
iOS · Android · WebAI separates the speakers
Automatic transcription with speaker diarization distinguishes student from patient dialogue for precise, fair analysis.
Diarization built inThe competency record writes itself
Scores mapped to AACN Essentials and NCSBN CJMM, plus specific coaching with alternative responses, in under 60 seconds, not weeks.
PDF export ready
What happens in the video
- 0:00 – 0:05 · The problem. Every nursing program teaches therapeutic communication. Almost none can prove a student learned it.
- 0:05 – 0:12 · Record. A student records a real patient conversation on a phone. NurseKind AI transcribes it and tells each speaker apart.
- 0:12 – 0:24 · Score. The encounter is scored against AACN Essentials competencies, with the NCSBN Clinical Judgment Model behind it. Faculty get the report in under 60 seconds. Nobody sits in the room.
- 0:24 – 0:31 · Evidence. Every encounter rolls up into a cohort summary and a per-student appendix. Export as CSV or PDF for a CCNE self-study.
- 0:31 – 0:37 · Review. Faculty review every score, and the rubric is theirs. Each review is logged, so the record holds up.
- 0:37 – 0:44 · Practice. Students practice on their own phone, any time.
- 0:44 – 0:47 · Close. Simulation for practice. Real encounters for the record.
Audio shows what they said. Video shows what they did.
Upload a video and we report six behaviors a transcript can't show. Pick a procedure and we check its steps too. Every observation has time ranges faculty can check, and none of it is an automatic grade.
- 01
Confirms patient identity
Checks the ID band or chart against the patient, when one is present.
- 02
Posture at the patient's eye level
Seated or lowered, arms open, not standing over the patient.
- 03
Attention toward the patient
Head and face turned to the patient, not to notes or a device.
- 04
Undivided attention
Body faces the patient, nods or leans in, no unrelated device use.
- 05
No judgmental body language
No sustained turning away, held crossed arms or dismissive gestures.
- 06
Professional appearance
Uniform, badge, hair, nails and shoes against your program's dress standard.
Faculty review required. These are observations from the recording to support your judgment. They do not change the overall score.
Tick a procedure, or build your own. We check the steps.
For a video of one student performing a procedure, faculty tick the skill before upload. NurseKind AI reports each step as observed, not shown correctly, or can't tell from the video, with time ranges to check. Critical steps are listed first.
- Hand hygiene
- Vital signs, including manual blood pressure
- Medication administration, oral or injection
- Sterile field and sterile gloves
- Foley catheter insertion
- Your own
Your program teaches a procedure we don't list? Write what you want to see, review the steps the AI drafts, and save it as your own.
Step lists are adapted from Open RN (CC BY 4.0). Available on the Complete plan. How the skills check works →
Faculty review required. These are observations from the recording. They are not a grade and do not change the overall score.
It doesn't read emotions, judge eye contact, identify individuals, or change the score. The skills check covers one student per recording and gives no pass or fail. When the camera can't show a behavior or a step, the card says so and nothing is held against the student. Faculty review every observation.
One system for the skills that are hardest to measure
Observed behaviors from video
Upload a video and the platform reports six things a transcript can't show: a visual ID check, posture at the patient's eye level, attention toward the patient, undivided attention, judgmental body language, and professional appearance. Each comes with time ranges you can check. Checklist rows that audio couldn't score get re-scored from the video. It's evidence for faculty review and never changes the score. The video is deleted after analysis.
Real-encounter assessment
Authentic student-patient conversations recorded live in sim labs and clinical placements, transcribed with speaker diarization and scored against AACN Essentials competencies. This is where the accreditation evidence comes from.
AI patient simulation
Live voice conversations with AI patients that respond to what the student actually says. No script, no decision tree. A built-in library, or your own custom scenarios in any of 18 clinical domains, 3 difficulty levels, every session graded against a nursing rubric in under 60 seconds. Formative practice, on the student's own phone, anywhere.
Improvement coaching
Not just scores. Specific, growth-oriented guidance with alternative responses and communication strategies for every interaction.
AACN competency mapping
Every assessment scores AACN Essentials competencies, with the NCSBN Clinical Judgment Model as supporting evidence. Domain 2 (person-centered care) leads: 2.1, 2.2, 2.3 and 2.5. Next Generation NCLEX readiness, documented by competency number.
Program-wide analytics
Track adoption, engagement, and outcomes across your entire program. Spot at-risk students early.
Export-ready reports
One-click professional PDFs for student portfolios and faculty review, with scores mapped to AACN Essentials competencies.
Group scenario assessment
Sim-lab teams recorded together on one patient scenario, graded as a single shared score instead of one student at a time.
Audio & video upload
Already have the recording? Faculty upload an audio or video file of an existing encounter instead of recording live. Graded the same way, no separate workflow.
Faculty score adjustment
Faculty keep the final word. Adjust the overall score on any assessment, with a reason the student can see and a logged record of who changed what and when. The original AI-generated score is always kept alongside it, and school admins get a report of every change.
Skills checks from video
For a video of one student performing a procedure, pick the skill: hand hygiene, vital signs, medication administration, sterile field and gloves, Foley catheter, or one your faculty built, and choose the method where there is one (soap and water or alcohol rub, oral or injection). NurseKind AI reports each step as observed correctly, not shown correctly, or can't tell from the video, with time ranges you can check and a flag on any step worth a second look. It shows when someone else had to prompt the student, and it lists the steps a recording can't show, like documentation. Step lists are adapted from open nursing-skills checklists. It is evidence for your check-off, not a grade, and you keep the decision.
Build your own skills check
Your program may not teach a procedure the way our lists do. Write what you want to see and the AI drafts the steps. You edit them, mark the critical ones, and save. The skill sits beside the built-in ones and reports the same way: evidence for your check-off, not a grade. It's private to you, the AI never adds a step you didn't approve, and NurseKind doesn't review faculty-written steps.
Live in minutes. Not months.
No complex implementation or lengthy onboarding. Import your roster, connect your LMS, and start assessing the same day.
Canvas / Brightspace (D2L) / LTI 1.3
- 05.1Bulk CSV upload: add hundreds of students instantly
- 05.2Custom rubric configuration: define your program's criteria once, applied to every assessment
- 05.3Roster & grade sync: LTI Advantage enrollment and grade passback
- 05.4Dedicated onboarding: faculty training and student orientation included
“I practiced therapeutic communication, taught it to nursing students, and watched programs fail to assess it. There was no standard and no tool. So I built one.”
11+ years in emergency psychiatric nursing and nursing education at Hofstra University. Her background as a psychiatric nurse practitioner is the reason this works. Therapeutic communication isn't a soft concept here. It's the product.
Ready for your IT and compliance review
Built for real clinical environments where patient information may be present: the answers your security team will ask for, up front.
HIPAA compliant
Deployable in active clinical placements. Business Associate Agreement (BAA) available for programs in clinical settings.
FERPA compliant
Meets federal requirements for educational records. Students can download their records, see who accessed them and request corrections in the app, and records are deleted after one year. Student data stays under your institution's control.
Encrypted end to end
All recordings and transcripts are encrypted in transit and at rest, with role-based access controls and audit logging.
Your data, your rules
Institutions own their data. Clear retention policies, MFA for faculty and admins, and documentation for security review.
Start with a pilot. Scale with your program.
No hidden fees. AI Patient Simulation is included in every institutional plan. Video review is its own tier.
Pilot Program
Test it with one cohort before full adoption
- Up to 100 assessments
- Unlimited faculty
- Full feature access, incl. AI Patient Simulation
- Web & mobile apps
- Implementation support & training materials
Institutional
The communication standard, program-wide
- Unlimited assessments & faculty
- AI Patient Simulation included
- LMS integration: Canvas roster import, Brightspace via LTI 1.3
- Student & school usage reports
- Dedicated training & priority support
Complete
Institutional, plus video
- Everything in Institutional
- Video upload
- Timestamped observed behaviors
- Skills checks, incl. your own
- Faculty review flagged moments
- AI advises, faculty decide
Questions about procurement, quotes, or multi-campus pricing? Talk to us. We work with institutional purchasing processes every week.
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Student & Faculty Access
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Watch a real encounter become an AACN evidence record
See a live assessment run on a real interaction, scored against AACN Essentials competencies and NCSBN CJMM, and bring your own rubric if you'd like.
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