The Foundation for Neonatal Research and Education offers research grant opportunities to neonatal nurses who meet the follow criteria:

  1. You must be a professionally active neonatal nurse as evidenced by:
    • actively engaging in a service, research, or educational role that contributes directly to the health care of neonates or to the neonatal nursing profession (includes all professional neonatal nursing roles and neonatal nursing students).
    • being an active member of a professional association dedicated to enhancing neonatal nursing and the care of neonates and whose mission is consistent with the mission of the Foundation for Neonatal Research and Education.
    • demonstrating ongoing professional education in neonatal nursing through at least 10 contact hours in neonatal nursing content in the past 24 months, or through being a neonatal nurse enrolled in a degree nursing program (advanced or RN-to-BSN) during the same time period.
  2. You must not have received a FNRE scholarship or grant in the past five (5) years.
  3. You must not be a current member of the FNRE Board or FNRE Research Grant Review Committee.
  4. Only one (1) research grant will be awarded per research project.
  5. You must be the principal investigator
  6. If the principal investigator has limited research experience, it is expected that a mentor will be consulted.

To download a research grant application in Adobe Acrobat (PDF) format (requires free Acrobat Reader software), simply click on the link below: