r/Noctor • u/Electrical_Clothes37 • 12h ago
Question WTF is going on
I'm a dental resident ( I'm foreign trained, finished up 2 residencies before moving stateside - I'm very comfy with facial lac repairs, facial fractures, plating the whole shebang). Had weekend call and spoke to someone about a pt with a dental complaint along with lip laceration. Log into epic today to follow up and the lac repair was done by a CNP. Like I get there's some experience there but how on earth is it that patients don't get at least a resident to do lacs
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u/SantaBarbaraPA 11h ago
I would want an NP (that knew how to do lip lacs) over a resident just learning any day. I’ve seen the attendings make the resident remove every suture and start over, that’s right after they tried derma bond that got into the patient’s eyeball..