Flourishing Nursing Forward
The Kitchen Monk™ Nursing Resource Hub
Resources · Education · Events · Community · Leadership · Nurse Coaching · Innovation
Nursing is enormous, and no single organization holds all of it. This hub is a doorway to the excellent nursing organizations that already exist. We point you to them. They are the source.
Nursing & professional resources
Are you a nurse or healthcare professional? Visit FlourishingNursing.org for the professional evidence library, human flourishing in nursing ethics and education, nurse-coaching resources, leadership resources, and professional community.
Quick links: ANA · AHNA · AANP · Nurse coaching resources · ACLM. Independent organizations; no endorsement implied.
🩺 Lifestyle medicine nurses leading the way: meet nurses bringing lifestyle medicine into practice, education, and communities, including Kathy Berra, Cody Stubbe, Tammy Robertson, Joanne Evans, and Meryl Fury. See the full list on Flourishing Nursing → Lifestyle medicine nurses can ask to be added.
🧭 Start Here: What are you looking for?
- Professional nursing standards, ethics & practice → American Nurses Association ↗
- I’m a nurse practitioner → American Association of Nurse Practitioners ↗
- I’m exploring holistic nursing → American Holistic Nurses Association ↗
- I want to learn about or become a nurse coach → Integrative Nurse Coach® Academy ↗
- I want to build a nurse-owned business → National Nurses in Business Association ↗
- Nursing leadership → American Organization for Nursing Leadership ↗
- Nursing research → National Institute of Nursing Research ↗
- International nursing → International Council of Nurses ↗
- The latest news, opportunities & events → What’s Happening in Nursing? →
Find your pathway
🩺 I’m an RN
💼 I’m an APRN / NP
🌿 I’m a nurse coach
Integrative Nurse Coach® Academy ↗
AHNCC board certification ↗
AHNA ↗
🥗 I’m interested in lifestyle nursing
🏛️ I’m a nurse leader
📚 I’m a nurse educator
🚀 I’m a nurse entrepreneur
✅ I’m looking for CE
🤝 I’m looking for community
Organization Spotlight
American Holistic Nurses Association
What they do: AHNA is a professional home for holistic nursing: whole-person care that honors body, mind, emotion, spirit, and environment, and that includes caring for the nurse.
Who may benefit: nurses in any setting who want to bring healing presence, self-care, and whole-person practice into their work, and nurses exploring holistic nursing or nurse coaching.
What to explore: their education, events, publications, and professional community, all on AHNA’s own site.
The spotlight rotates among organizations. No spotlight is paid for; if that ever changes, it will be clearly labeled as sponsored.
Foundational Nursing Organizations
Featured Independent Resource: organizations we especially encourage nurses to explore · Professional Resource: widely used professional organizations · Explore: further places to look
Featured independent resources
★ FEATURED INDEPENDENT RESOURCE
American Nurses Association (ANA)
The broad professional nursing ecosystem. Standards, professional practice, ethics, policy, workforce, leadership, workplace safety, well-being, and nursing news.
★ FEATURED INDEPENDENT RESOURCE
American Association of Nurse Practitioners (AANP)
For nurse practitioners of all specialties. NP practice, continuing education, conferences, state practice information, research, leadership, and professional community.
★ FEATURED INDEPENDENT RESOURCE
American Holistic Nurses Association (AHNA)
Holistic nursing · Whole-person care · Healing · Self-care · Education · Leadership. A professional community for holistic nurses.
★ FEATURED INDEPENDENT RESOURCE · PAID PROGRAMS
Integrative Nurse Coach® Academy (INCA)
Nurse coaching · Integrative & holistic nursing · Coaching competencies. Programs, webinars, and a nurse-coaching community. INCA is accredited as a provider of nursing continuing professional development by the ANCC.
★ FEATURED INDEPENDENT RESOURCE
National Nurses in Business Association (NNBA)
Nurse entrepreneurship · Nurse-owned businesses · Consulting · Innovation · Networking. Business education and community for nurses building their own ventures.
Professional resources
| Area | Organization | Focus |
|---|---|---|
| Credentialing | American Nurses Credentialing Center (ANCC) ↗ | Nurse certification and organizational credentialing, part of the American Nurses Enterprise |
| Well-being & philanthropy | American Nurses Foundation ↗ | The philanthropic arm of ANA, supporting nurse well-being and innovation |
| Holistic & coaching certification | American Holistic Nurses Credentialing Corporation (AHNCC) ↗ | Board certification for holistic nurses and nurse coaches |
| Scholarship & leadership | Sigma ↗ | International honor society of nursing |
| Scholarship & policy | American Academy of Nursing ↗ | Nursing leaders working on health policy and practice |
| Education | National League for Nursing ↗ | Nursing education and nurse faculty |
| Education | American Association of Colleges of Nursing ↗ | Academic nursing and nursing schools |
| Leadership | American Organization for Nursing Leadership ↗ | Nurse leaders and executives |
| Research | National Institute of Nursing Research ↗ | Federal nursing research at the NIH |
| Global | International Council of Nurses ↗ | A global federation of national nurses associations |
Explore
Your state nurses association: many states have their own professional nursing association with local events and community. Start at ANA to find yours ↗
Why professional community matters
No nurse should have to navigate an entire career alone. Professional organizations create opportunities for education, mentorship, standards development, scholarship, leadership, networking, research, advocacy, innovation, entrepreneurship, and belonging. Kitchen Monk™ encourages nurses to explore the communities that best fit their professional goals and values.
Current Events: What’s Happening in Nursing? →
Explore Education: The Lifestyle Medicine Library →
Join Community Movement: Move With a Nurse™ →
Explore the Vision: Flourishing Nursing Forward →
Explore the Developing Flourishing Nursing Community →
Flourishing Nursing Forward
Kitchen Monk™ believes that moving nursing forward means connecting rather than competing. It means honoring the organizations already educating nurses, supporting the communities already mentoring nurses, and learning from the institutions developing nursing scholarship.
Creating room for nurse coaches. For holistic nurses. For nurse practitioners. For entrepreneurs, educators, leaders, and students. For bedside nurses and community nurses. And room for every nurse to continue becoming.
We do not need one organization to do everything. We need an interconnected nursing community in which excellent organizations can illuminate different parts of the journey.
Learn. Connect. Rest. Lead. Serve. Flourish.
Kitchen Monk™ provides links to independent organizations and educational resources for convenience and professional discovery. Unless specifically stated, these organizations do not sponsor, endorse, certify, approve, or affiliate with Kitchen Monk™, and Kitchen Monk™ does not speak on their behalf. Content, programs, standards, fees, eligibility requirements, views, and policies are controlled by the respective organizations and may change. Please verify current information directly with the original organization. Listing a resource does not constitute an endorsement of every position, product, service, statement, or policy of the organization.
