Risk, Resilience, and Creating Balance: An Interview With Gail Latimer

This year, Gail E. Latimer, MSN, RN, FAAN, FACHE, received the American Organization for Nursing Leadership's (AONL's) prestigious Lifetime Achievement Award, which honors an AONL member recognized by the nursing community as a significant leader in the nursing profession who has served AONL in an important leadership capacity. Latimer served as a member of the AONL board of directors and as chair of the AONL Foundation. In her career, she held a series of executive nursing roles that showcased her ability to refine nursing work processes to make them measurably more efficient and improve the patient experience of care. In 2004, she became vice president and chief nursing officer (CNO) of Siemens Health Services, a global medical technology company, and later served as CNO of Cerner Corporation. This is an abridged version of an interview conducted by former AONL board member Claire M. Zangerle, DNP, MSN, MBA, RN, NEA-BC, chief nurse executive, Allegheny Health Network at the AONL's annual meeting in San Diego in April 2019.