Does maternal child home visiting program improve nursing practice for screening of woman abuse?
Implementing a protocol to screen for woman abuse into an existing maternal child home visiting program demonstrated improved practices related to the safety and privacy of women, and an increase in abuse disclosures.
We have found that although almost all Danish EDs have ultrasound equipment available, few physicians working in the ED seem to have adopted the tool. Emergency Ultrasound is mainly performed by specialists who are summoned to the ED in case of severe acute illness and not by those physicians who comprise the backbone of the ED around the clock.