For most medical staffs, OPPE and FPPE have become everyday parlance. Others still think of them as four-letter words. Now, several years after OPPE and FPPE were added to The Joint Commission's standards for hospitals, some facilities are still struggling to perfect their practices.

Over many decades, Toyota Motor Corporation developed a Lean production to standardize work and reap the benefit of improved methodologies that impact the quality of a product. The base aims of standardized work are to impact and improve customer satisfaction while eliminating wasted,...