Tell me if this is the norm in your er!

thanks again everyone-every er I have worked in in my time, I have seen no one suture other than MD, PA, or NP-that is why I was so blown away. Same thing with only cleaning with saline, can't see why we can't even do some kind of soap if betadine is now felt to be too caustic to the tissues.

they did vaguely ask me if my son's shots were up to date, which was yes, and I think tetanus is in there somewhere!

Sarey-the nurse and tech stated that you don't even see a doc if u have a lac type that they have experience suturing-this was all, per them, to increase throughput through the ER...there were many statements of how busy the doc was and he didn't have time to do everything. (community er, 14? beds, one doc, no midlevel).

yes I wonder how the charging of the suturing would go...

thanks again everyone..