Kate Christmas
RN, VP, Health Care Division
Subject Area Expertise/Speaking topics:
- Recipes for Retention
- Retention: Don't Let Your Good Employees Become History
- Recruit to Retain
- Recruiter Burnout
- Working with State Workforce Initiatives
- Creating a Successful International Recruitment Program
- How Leadership Styles Impact Recruitment and Retention
- Recruitment and Retention Metrics
BIO
Kate’s expertise comes from over a decade in HR/Recruitment and twenty plus years of experience as a hospital-based RN. Within nursing, she held many staff and managerial positions, including three years as a flight nurse. For seven years, Kate also served as a Board member of the National Association for Health Care Recruitment. She is a national speaker and writer/contributor of numerous articles on recruitment and retention. Based in Raleigh, North Carolina, Kate is serving her second two-year term on the Research, Nursing Workforce and Advisory Committees of the North Carolina Center for Nursing. Kate has been with Bernard Hodes Group for seven years.
Past speaking engagements:
- American Organization of Nurse Executives
- Florida Organization of Nurse Executives
- Alabama Association of Health Care Recruiters
- Association of Staff Physician Recruiters
- Atlanta Metro Organization of Health Care Recruiters
- National Association for Health Care Recruitment
- Maryland Association of Health Care Recruiters
- HCA National Human Resources Conference
- Virginia Partnership for Nursing
- North Carolina Association for Health Care Recruitment

