🍽️ At Kitchen Monk™, there is always room for one more at the table. Our founder hopes to carry that welcome into nursing education.
🌱 The Flourishing Nursing Education Initiative is a plan, not a school. As of October 2026, it offers no classes, enrollment, credit, or degrees. It is gathering advisors first.
🧭 What we stand for today
- 🏳️🌈 Lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer people belong fully.
- 🕊️ People of every faith and none are welcome. Our faith is an invitation, never a requirement.
- 🔎 Honest learning and respectful questions guide the work.
- 🥦 Whole-person health: food, sleep, movement, and community.
🥕 What Kitchen Monk brings: cooking skills and whole-person health. Future nurses could learn to help patients eat well in real kitchens, on real budgets, in their own cultures.
🔍 Honest by design: Kitchen Monk would be taught as one evidence-informed approach that students can question. Students would never be required to buy anything from Kitchen Monk or take part in promotions.
🛠️ What we are building toward
- 📚 Continuing education and nurse coaching, as a first step
- 🏛️ Shared governance and legal protections for these commitments
- 🎓 A nursing college only if careful study and the right approvals support it
Founded by Flourishing Nurse Ninja Nathanael Elijah Smith, FNP-C, DipACLM. A planning initiative as of October 2026: not accredited, approved, or degree-granting.
