 What? What do you want? I just want love. I just want to be loved. I've been gone for like, well, like three hours this morning and three hours this afternoon, but I came home in between for a bit. So, he's missing me. Huh. Don't bite my arm. Abby, do you mind? Don't squeak the toys. To make a video on something that... Now they're both squeaking their toys. Alright, we're just going to ignore them. If they're squeaking, just ignore it. So, I wanted to do this video on, like, a really crappy topic that is something that happens a lot, but nurses don't talk about it enough. I wanted to, like, break that stereotype and talk about it because it happened to me, and it stinks, but I want to talk about it. So, you can see by the title of this video, I got my first needle stick. I was giving a patient insulin with the little tiny insulin syringes. It was a 30-gauge, a little tiny needle, and I gave the insulin, and I was pulling the insulin needle out, so I was holding, poked, pulled the insulin needle out, went to, like, slide my thumb to do the little safety cap, and when I was doing that, I just kind of, like, was pulling my hand back at the same time, and I just nicked my finger. You can't even really, like, well, I guess I shouldn't do that. You can't even really, like, see the mark anymore. You can, but probably not on camera. And I was wearing gloves. It bled a little bit. I washed my hands immediately, and then I was, like, oh, my gosh. Like, now what? What do I do now? It just, these things happen, and sometimes it's accident, well, it's usually always accidental, no one, like, purposely tries to do it, but sometimes it's our fault, sometimes it's not our fault, sometimes it's just the situation, and, oh, my gosh, the pets are taking over. They're taking over my life. And a lot of nurses, I realize don't say anything, don't do anything, and they just, like, keep it a secret because they're embarrassed about getting stuck by a needle. They feel, like, guilty or embarrassed. Like, it's their fault. And, I mean, I admit this is my fault, and I felt really bad and kind of embarrassed, but immediately I went to my charge nurse, and I was, like, I just stuck myself with a needle. What do I do? And basically what I had to do was I had to call this number, which was, like, our occupational health person, and they took down my information, what happened at the time, all these things, and then we had to draw some labs on the patient, and that tested for HIV, Hep C, sorry for the squeaking, and those got sent off, and the HIV test already came back. It was negative, which is good, and then the hepatitis B and C, I will find out those results probably tomorrow, and so maybe I'll include the results at the end of this video or something, but I'm not too concerned, you know, because, one, insulin needles are subcutaneous, so it's not like this needle went directly into my vein. Two, I really highly doubt this patient has any, you know, anything, but I guess you never know, that should never be your excuse or reason not to get them tested. The other thing is the, actually, after I called the number and gave my information, a doctor called me back, like the intake doctor, and gave me some information, she said, if the needle's infected with HIV, it's a 0.3% chance that you'll get HIV if that needle goes directly into your bloodstream. So, it's, like, a really, really, really small chance. This patient didn't have HIV. I have, you know, my hepatitis immunization, so I'm not, like, too concerned about that, but it's still really scary. It's a scary thing, and I actually talked to some nurses after it happened that worked on my unit, and they're like, yeah, it happened to me, and the patient was HIV and, like, hepatitis B and C-positive, and they were a drug user, and, you know, I'm fortunate in it. Well, I hope I'm fortunate enough that they don't have, this patient doesn't have anything, but I'm just, you know, I'm grateful that this is what it was and it could have been worse, and it's just another reminder to me to slow down. And if anything I want you guys to get from this video is that if this happens to you, say something and go through the proper protocol for your work to, you know, get tested and, you know, get those labs drawn on that patient because the last thing that you want to do is not, and then something, God forbid, you know, happens, you know, where you do end up getting HIV or something like that, or just, you know, it's good to have the peace of mind. If anything, do it for the peace of mind, and don't be embarrassed. Yes, it stinks. It's, you know, I don't want to say embarrassing because it's so easy for it to happen, but I felt embarrassed. I felt like, you know, my, maybe my nursing skills weren't that good, but I was just going too fast. It's just another reminder to slow down. So slow down. And if it happens to you guys, you know, go through the steps and protocols to report it and get those, the patient tested and you tested whatnot. So thank you guys for watching this video. Make sure you give it a thumbs up and subscribe to my channel. If this has ever happened to you, leave a story in the comments below because if anything, hearing about it happening to other people makes you feel like it's not as uncommon. If that makes sense. So thank you guys for watching and I'll see you in the next video. Bye. I just wanted to give you a little update on my needle stick results and everything. I just went to occupational health and got my blood drawn and all the hepatitis and HIV tests were negative on the patient that I got the needle stick from. And so they just drew my blood and they're just checking for my hepatitis, basically, titers to see if they're positive or not. And if they're not, then I can go ahead and give the start a new series of the vaccine. And if they are positive, then it's not, you know, a big deal. So, but regardless, I'm not going to get anything from this contaminated needle stick, which is good. And I'm just going to be checking my baseline labs just to be extra sure. So thank you guys for watching this video and I'll see you next time. Bye.