The tool kit was developed and adopted over a year and a half with health care, nursing stakeholders and researchers. Our chief nurses brought it to government and brought it to life last June, but it doesn't have any teeth because it doesn't have any money. We have great employers out there that want the tool. They want to know how to retain their staff. How do they diminish the agency component? How do they look at nurse-patient ratio? How do they look at mental health services?
Many services exist for other professions but not for nurses. Those are the three components: the staffing, the retention and the mental health. Then they're divided, but it's really a tool kit. It's there on everyone's desk. Now we need the energy, which is the financial push that employers could apply to get it.