title: Lean as a learning system in a hospital ward.
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  The purpose of this article is to discuss lean as a learning system in a hospital ward.
  
  
  METHODS
  Discusses lean as a learning system in a hospital ward.
  
  
  RESULTS
  The Toyota veterans are fond of saying, lean is about "making people before making parts" or, in the wards' context, developing nurses before delivering care.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  This example in using lean to carefully build a learning environment for staff and management has implications for nursing practice, certainly, but also more generally for lean implementation at large.
authors.affiliation: Telecom Paris, Paris, France. m.balle@orange.fr
authors.forename: Michael
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Ballé
authors.forename: Anne
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Régnier
mesh_terms: D006748:Hospital Departments / Q000458:organization & administration*; D006801:Humans; D007858:Learning; D017749:Total Quality Management / Q000379:methods*