The hospital here practices the 5S business model, which is a smaller part of an overreaching idea of the Japanese business model Kaizen. I cannot verify this, but I'm pretty sure I read somewhere that Japanese car companies based in the US practice this type of business model, and it's so effective that some US car companies have adopted these principles into the workplace.
Kaizen
5S
The 5S principal basically moves away from micromanaging so that staff members are accountable fore each other. Self-discipline is key and, if done correctly, the work place is more efficient. It's not all the different from US business practices except that the focus is more on self-management instead of traditional managing.
So today, the staff was separated into groups and given areas of the hospital to implement 5S practices. My group had the ER so we spent of the day cleaning, sorting, and disposing of anything that wasn't of practical use.
After work some of the nurses took me around Dalaguete and showed me the local beach. All in all, a slow but good day.
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