Tick a skill or build your own. Upload the video. Review the steps that matter.
Faculty pick a procedure, or build one, upload a video of one student performing it, and NurseKind AI reports each step as observed, not shown correctly, or can't tell, with time ranges to check. It advises. Faculty decide.
One recording. Three skills ticked. Here is what faculty get back.
A summary first, then a card per skill with the critical steps open and every step's time range. This is an example, not a real student. Faculty review every observation.
Faculty review required. These are observations from the recording. They are not a grade and do not change the overall score.
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Observed
The step was seen, with the time range it was seen at.
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Not shown correctly
The step was missed or done differently from the step list. Critical steps come first, so these are the first thing faculty see.
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Can't tell from this video
Out of frame, too far away or too dark to judge. Nothing in this state is held against the student.
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Not assessable from video
The step happens off camera, such as checking an order or documenting. It is listed but never given a verdict.
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Worth replaying
The result for this step was uncertain, so it is flagged for you to check first.
Faculty review required. These are observations from the recording. They are not a grade and do not change the overall score.
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Critical steps open first
Steps tied to infection control and patient safety are marked critical. They sit at the top, open.
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Every step has a time range
Each range tells you where to look in your own recording, so you can watch the moment yourself.
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Speech steps need audio
Patient ID and telling the patient the readings are spoken. If the student does not say them, they come back as can't tell.
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Sterile technique is the hard part
Drapes and hands often block the view of a sterile field, so expect more can't tell here. That is the card being honest, not the student failing.
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Off-camera steps are listed, not judged
Allergy checks and documentation appear as not assessable, so nothing is silently skipped.
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Critical steps by default
The steps that matter most for infection control and patient safety are marked critical, and listed first.
Faculty review required. These are observations from the recording. They are not a grade and do not change the overall score.
Faculty review required. These are observations from the recording. They are not a grade and do not change the overall score.
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No score
Nothing here becomes a number, and nothing feeds the overall score.
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No pass or fail
The decision to sign off a student stays with faculty, always.
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No names
The analysis is never told who is in the video and does not identify anyone.
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One student per recording
The option disappears when more than one student is selected.
Results appear after the Observed behaviors on the recording, and in the saved record, the faculty viewer and the PDF. Students do not see them in the app.
Skills checkoffs mean hours of watching.
Programs record skills lab practice and checkoffs, then faculty watch the footage to see whether each step happened: hand hygiene, the sterile field, the vital signs, the medication checks.
Most of it is straightforward. The few steps that carry patient risk are what faculty most need to find, and they are buried in the recording.
The skills check does a first pass over the steps and points faculty to the moments worth watching. The judgment stays with faculty.
Four steps. Use ours or build yours.
Record the practice
Film one student at a time with the hands and work area in frame. Any phone or lab camera that produces an MP4 works.
Open Upload Video and tick the skill
Choose the student, then tick one or more skills: the five below, or ones you built yourself. For hand hygiene and medication administration, pick the method (soap and water or alcohol rub, oral or injection). The analysis looks for every step of each skill you tick.
Upload the recording
Upload an MP4 of up to 40 minutes. It is analyzed alongside the transcript and observed behaviors, then deleted.
Review the Skills check
Critical steps are open first. Other steps are collapsed. Go to each time range, replay the flagged moments, and make your call.
Want a skill we don't list? Build it first, then tick it here.
Step lists adapted from open sources
Each skill has a fixed list of steps. Steps that need speech or happen off camera are handled separately, so the analysis never guesses at them.
| Skill | Source | What it covers |
|---|---|---|
| Hand hygiene | Open RN Nursing Skills 2e 4.5 and 4.6 | Soap and water or alcohol-based rub, in the method you choose |
| Vital signs, including manual blood pressure | Open RN Nursing Skills 2e, Appendix A and 3.5 | Temperature, pulse, respirations, oxygen saturation and a two-step manual blood pressure |
| Medication administration: oral or injection | Open RN Nursing Skills 2e 15.4 and 18.8 | The six-rights checks, then the oral or injection technique you choose |
| Sterile field and sterile gloves | Open RN Nursing Skills 2e 4.8, field steps derived from 4.4 | Opening a sterile kit, adding items, applying and removing sterile gloves |
| Foley catheter insertion | Open RN Nursing Skills 2e | Sterile technique from setup to the drainage bag |
Open RN content is used under CC BY 4.0 and shown with attribution. Open RN's sterile field chapter gives principles rather than a checklist, so those steps are our adaptation of it. Always follow your program's and agency's policy.
Hand hygiene
Soap and water: jewelry and sleeves, warm water, lathering for at least 15 to 20 seconds, fingertips down, rinsing, drying, and the tap turned off with a paper towel. Alcohol rub: enough product, every surface, rubbed until dry. Faculty pick one before upload.
Vital signs, including manual blood pressure
Privacy, identity and explanation, temperature, pulse, respirations, oxygen saturation, patient position and cuff placement, a two-step manual blood pressure, readings stated aloud, and cleaning up.
Medication administration: oral or injection
The six-rights checks (spoken aloud), then the route you choose: oral technique and staying until each medication is swallowed, or vial and syringe handling, site, technique, hold time, needle safety and sharps.
Sterile field and sterile gloves
Package and surface checks, opening the kit without crossing the field, adding items, pouring solution, applying and removing sterile gloves, and keeping the field sterile. The field steps are our adaptation of Open RN principles.
Foley catheter insertion
Privacy, peri-care, the sterile field and sterile gloving, antiseptic strokes, the nondominant hand, insertion depth, balloon, securement and drainage bag placement.
Not a replacement for your procedure
The lists are a starting point drawn from open sources. They have not been validated as a competency standard, and your program or agency policy always applies.
Your procedure, your steps
List what you want to see, or paste your checklist. The AI rewrites each item as steps a recording can show. You decide what stays.
List what you want to see
Up to 30 items, one per line. Paste a checklist if you have one, or copy one of our five and change it.
Review the steps
Each item becomes one or more steps. You label what a camera can show, mark the critical ones, and edit anything. The AI can suggest a missing step. It's added only if you accept it.
Save and tick it
Your skill appears beside the five on Upload Video and reports the same way.
Only you can use it
Other faculty can't see it. A faculty admin can read every skill at your school and see who wrote it, but can't change yours.
We don't review the steps
NurseKind doesn't review faculty-written steps. Your program's and agency's policy applies, and results say they're defined by your institution.
Same as the five
No score, no pass or fail, and nothing changes the overall score.
Thirty steps a skill
Up to 30 steps a skill and five skills a video. A combined limit applies per video, and the screen shows it as you tick.
Faster to the moments that matter. The call stays yours.
- Walks through every step of the procedure and reports what it could see
- Puts the infection-control and patient-safety steps first
- Gives time ranges so faculty know where to look for each step
- Flags steps it could not judge, and steps where the result was uncertain
- Runs alongside the observed behaviors and your custom rubric on the same recording
- Deciding whether a student passes or needs more practice
- Judging technique quality, such as angle, pressure and touch
- Anything that happens off camera or is never said aloud
- Matching the steps to your program's and agency's procedure
Record it so the steps can be seen
Hands and work area in frame
A steady camera at a distance that shows the hands, the equipment and the patient site. Out-of-frame steps come back as can't tell.
Even light, no shadows over the field
Dry time, glove contact and the sterile field are hard to judge in a dark or backlit shot.
Let students say the checks aloud
Patient identification, the six rights and site landmarks are verbal steps. If they are not said aloud, they cannot be assessed.
One student per recording
The skills check covers one student. Record each student separately, up to 40 minutes per file.
Faculty-only, encrypted, deleted after analysis
Turned on for your program
Video upload is a setting NurseKind enables for your institution. Faculty and faculty admin accounts see the Upload Video tab once it is on.
The video is not kept
The video is deleted when the analysis finishes. It is never kept for playback.
Results stored with the record
The text results are encrypted, visible to faculty, and deleted with the assessment record.
Not shown in the app
Students do not see skills results in the app. They are included if a student requests their records.
Questions about the video skills check
See the skills check on your own lab video
30 minutes, no sales pitch. Bring a skills lab recording and we will walk through the result.
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