Grant Writing Handbook for Nurses, Second Edition

Barbara Holtzclaw, PhD, RN, FAAN-Professor/Nurse Scientist, University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, Professor Emeritus and Former Associate Dean for Research, University of Texas Health Science Center, San Antonio, Texas

Carole Kenner, PhD, RN-C, NIC, FAAN-President, Council of International Neonatal Nurses, Edmond, Oklahoma

Carole Kenner, PhD, RNC-NIC, FAAN is the Dean and Professor in the School of Nursing and Associate Dean Bouvé College of Health Sciences, Northeastern University, where she has held these positions since January 2010.  Her research and career have been dedicated to the health of neonates and their families, as well as educational and professional development of healthcare practices in neonatology. Her leadership in maternal-child nursing with special emphasis in neonatal palliative care has provided her with international recognition. She is also interested in the research areas of transition from hospital to home for mothers and babies, fetal alcohol syndrome, family context for clinical genetics and families of newly diagnosed children with cancer. The common thread is the family context and supporting the families undergoing a crisis due a child’s illness or death.  Dean Kenner’s dedication includes providing a healthcare standard for educating neonatal nurses nationally and internationally. Her passion led her to begin the journal Newborn and Infant Nursing Reviews, which she now serves as the international column editor, along with her many other accomplishments. She continues to prove her commitment by serving on the Consensus Committee of Neonatal Intensive Care Design Standards, which sets worldwide recommendations for Neonatal Intensive Care Unit designs and serves on the Nursing Advisory Committee of the National March of Dimes. Her influence has developed policy for the care of the neonate and the reduction of infant mortality both nationally and internationally. She is a past president of the National Association of Neonatal Nurses (NANN) and in addition, Dean Kenner founded and remains President of the Council of International Neonatal Nurses (COINN), which is the first international organization to represent neonatal nursing and nursing development at this level. Because of her passion in neonatal education, she was invited to the United Nations Children’s Fund to take part of the health policy meeting organized by the Government of Norway and UNICEF. She is the 2010 recipient for the STAN and MAVIS GRAVEN award for her leadership in enhancing the physical and environments for the high-risk infants. 

Dr. Kenner received her Bachelor’s of Science in Nursing (BSN) from the University of Cincinnati College of Nursing, Cincinnati, Ohio.  She received her Master’s of Science in Nursing with a specialty of Perinatal Clinical Nurse Specialist and Neonatal Nurse Practitioner and her Doctor of Nursing Science/Doctor of Philosophy from Indiana University School of Nursing, Indianapolis, Indiana. 

Marlene Walden, PhD, RN-C, NNP, CCNS-Neonatal Nurse Practitioner/Nurse Scientist, Texas Children's Hospital, Houston, Texas