Kendra Menzies Kent, MS, RN, CENP, CCRN, CNRN, SCRN, TCRN, graduated from the University of Texas in Arlington in 1985 with her BSN. She successfully completed and graduated from Parkland Memorial Hospital’s Critical Care and Trauma Internship. She has worked in the Surgery/Trauma, Thoracic and Neurosurgical ICU at Parkland Memorial Hospital as a staff nurse and nurse educator. Ms. Kent has been a manager on a trauma floor and the director of critical care at Zale Lipshy University Hospital in Dallas. She has her master’s of nursing from Texas Women’s University as a clinical nurse specialist (CNS) and has worked as a CNS in the surgical trauma ICU at Parkland Memorial Hospital.

Ms. Kent moved to Florida and is currently the director of the Marcus Neuroscience Institute associated with Boca Raton Regional Hospital. Ms. Kent has presented seminars throughout the United States, Canada, and Oman. She has also published multiple chapters and books, including the books Adult CCRN® Certification Review and Trauma Certified Registered Nurse (TCRN®) Examination Review, published by Springer Publishing Company. Ms. Kent has been known to be engaging and supportive of nurses desiring certification. She receives emails from nurses who are excited that they have successfully passed their examinations.