Possible needle injury? Or not

[TareqHamdi]

I am a cardiac catheterization technician in my intern year, 4 days ago while I was discarding some of the iv needles (24 gauge) was used on a newborn baby he is a 5 months old here in Saudi Arabia .
one of the needles has touched me, didn’t poked or stick me or penetrate the skin or even the gloves, just a touch for a second, it’s not even a scratch.
The gloves I suppose looks intact, And there is absolutely no penetration.
The finger looks 100% intact no penetration occurred. There is no blood on the gloves at all or my finger when I removed the gloves, I didn’t feel anything, just realized the needle touched my finger, I didn’t bleed and my skin is intact perfectly.
just little pain when I squeeze the finger so hard to see if there is blood which it didn’t, it’s last for a day.
And yes my finger is intact no pencture or anything.
even the needle looks clean or little blood I’m not sure because it’s was unsecessful.
I want to add that’s the needles was exposed to air for about 5-10 minutes before I start to discards them.
I want your help

[AnxiousNoMore]

hiv is effectively instantly dead in air so even if it wasn't sitting around for 5 minutes there is no risk. Only non-sex risk is quickly sharing hollow needles that you use to inject with.

[TareqHamdi]

Thank you, thank you so much!
And I guess the chances of 5 months old is infected is zero! And this doesn’t qualify to be needle stick right? Does it need to be going deep like penetration and you feel pain and start bleeding? If your gloves and finger is intact and you didn’t feel pain or start bleeding it’s no risk? I’m talking for education manner.
Can I put this behind me? Cause I’m super worried about my job and thank you again

[AnxiousNoMore]

"Only non-sex risk is quickly sharing hollow needles that you use to inject with." There was no sharing, so there was no hiv inside the baby's needle - therefore any hiv could only be on the needle so it would be dead.