Thank you for the question.
The main reason for being behind on the training is the recruitment and retention. We have a high turnover of nurses.
Our first order of priority is to make sure we have nurses in the position to deliver the service on an ongoing basis. This is not a justification for not meeting our own mandatory training standards. I would agree; this is a problem we are trying to fix.
At the same time that we are investing a lot of energy on training to improve our numbers there, we are also running a really aggressive recruitment strategy. We are hopeful that we will be able to stabilize the workforce, because to be able to deliver the mandatory training that has to be repeated every year, or every two years for some of the courses, we need to have a stable workforce. Each time we lose a nurse, we need to start back, and a new nurse may come into an employment position without that nursing background or the mandatory training met.
This is a fundamental issue we have with the training. It's the ability to stabilize the workforce. We still have a high turnover of nurses, but our recruitment strategy is starting to produce results right now, so this should help to stabilize the workforce and help improve our numbers in terms of training.