Hatmaker discusses workforce challenges with AHA chair

Debbie Hatmaker, chief nursing officer of the American Nurses Association, the American Nurses Credentialing Center and the American Nurses Foundation, with American Hospital Association (AHA) Board Chair Wright Lassiter III in this month鈥檚 Chair File conversation. The two leaders discussed workplace violence, the current nursing shortage, retention strategies, and ways to ensure safe and supportive work environments where nurses feel valued for their work. 鈥淚t is both an exciting and trying time in health care 鈥 and for nurses in particular 鈥 as we鈥檙e hopefully coming out of this pandemic,鈥 Hatmaker observed. The of their conversation is available on YouTube. (AHA News鈥, 3/28/22)