The Standards for quality improvement reporting excellence (SQUIRE) guidelines
The Standards for quality improvement reporting excellence (SQUIRE) guidelines aim at elaborating the work of any system to help in improving the quality, safety and the value of healthcare as well as among the methods that can be used to guarantee that the methods used and the observations made are as a result of interventions made. In the project pertaining to the promotion of cultural competency in hospice staff to improve patient outcomes, it systematically falls under the SQUIRE guidelines. The project aims at improving the quality of services provided by promoting the skill of culture among the workforce. This intervention will help in making the hospice a safe place to work and also a safe place for patients since cultural differences will be well managed. Besides, promoting cultural competency will be able to be observed through the outcomes of the hospice services by improving the result of the patients. The project is aimed at improving the quality of work in the healthcare system, thus sits well with the Standards for quality improvement reporting excellence.
The project of Promoting Cultural Competency in Hospice Staff to Improve Patient Outcome is more of a quality improvement project than it is a research project. A quality improvement project is one that involves systematic and continuous actions that cause measurable improvements in the healthcare services as well as the health outcomes of a targeted group of patients like hospice patients. Research, on the other hand, aims at going knowledge or a more in-depth understanding of the subject at hand. The analysis may not necessarily lead to any improvements, only provide insight and understanding. The project is, therefore, for quality improvement of the hospice patients and their staff, I matter of culture. The achievement of cultural competence to the hospice staff will enable the development of quality services among the team and the outcome results among the patients.