AACN Essentials evidence from the work your students already do
Students record a conversation or a skill, in the skills lab, in simulation, or in clinical placement. Each score is saved with the activity it belongs to, so the evidence for your self-study is already on file before anyone sits down to write it. Built by nursing faculty, for nursing faculty.
Looking for software to help with AACN accreditation? Evidence for your self-study.
Your program decides the competencies. NurseKind AI supplies the evidence.
The competencies a recording counts toward come from your own course objectives and curriculum mapping, linked to the activity. We do not hand you a fixed list to fit your curriculum around.
Start from the course, not from our list
Your course objectives and mapping say which competencies an assignment is meant to evidence.
Each recording is evidence for its activity
A student records the conversation or skill assigned for that activity, and the score is saved with it.
Faculty set the standard
Each activity is scored from your rubric and mapped to the AACN Essentials, course outcomes, and program outcomes indicated in your syllabus. Faculty review every result.
CCNE's 2026 Standards take effect January 1, 2027
Those standards cite the 2026 AACN Essentials. Every program with a self-study due for a 2027 visit is already writing to them. Evidence that has been accumulating since the semester started is a different position to write from than one built the month before a site visit.
One record, wherever the student practices.
A recording from the skills lab, a simulation, a standardized patient, or a clinical placement is scored on the same rubric and lands in the same record. Students can also rehearse a hard conversation first in Practice mode, with no grade attached.
When a recording includes patient information, HIPAA applies
Recordings made in clinical placements can include real patient information. NurseKind AI is HIPAA-compliant, a BAA is available, and every processor that could touch a recording is covered under it. That is part of why the record holds up when a site visitor asks how the program knows.
From a recording to a self-study paragraph
Four steps, and a faculty admin controls all of them from the Accreditation Evidence tab.
Every encounter adds to the record as it happens
No spreadsheet, no folder that sits untouched between site visits. The score is saved with the activity as soon as the recording is scored.
An AACN Domains Evidence Report for any date range or course
Competency summary, rating distribution, and a per-student appendix that links to that student's own assessment history, exportable as CSV or PDF.
A reviewed attestation on the record that needs one
A faculty member can mark an encounter reviewed, with an optional note, and can adjust the overall score with a reason on the record. The original AI score is always kept. The review shows on the PDF and in the cohort report, and the report counts adjusted scores, because CCNE holds faculty responsible for evaluation, not software.
A paste-ready paragraph, not a blank page
The Evidence Report writes a paragraph naming the competencies, the encounter and student counts, and the percentage meeting threshold, ready to paste into your self-study.
Questions about AACN evidence
Walk into your next CCNE visit with the record already built
See how a recording becomes AACN evidence, from the student's first recording to the self-study paragraph.
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