Hiv from practice injection pad ?

[Anon57763677]

Saturday when I was in clinical for my nursing school I accidentally poked myself with a insulin needle that was not used on another person but had been previously used on a practice injection pad. I washed and rinsed the area and disposed of the needle right away. My concern is that if another student were to poke them self with a needle and still continue to use that needle in the pad, would the blood in the pad be able to go onto my insulin needle and cause an infection(the school just opened up after 4 weeks of being close)

[Kirstie_MHModerator]

Since this question is a duplicate of your post in the HIV Prevention forum, please ask any follow-up questions there: https://www.medhelp.org/posts/HIV-Prevention/hiv-from-a-practice-injection-pad/show/3052727

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[auntiejessi]

Agree totally. Even medical professionals who have accidental needle sticks from patients who have HIV only have a .3% infection rate.

Even if another student had poked themselves, by the time you got it, after the break, nothing would be infectious. You might want to take that needle out of rotation, though, since you stuck yourself.

[auntiejessi]

And I say that not because it's contaminated with any blood-borne pathogens, but if you had any bacteria on your skin, it might infect someone else.

I'm also surprised they are having you practice with used needles. It's so much harder with dulled, used needles.

[Life360_Dave]

Hi poking will not transfer HIV and the odds of having a needle hanging around with the HIV germs inside is a million to one.  Nothing to worry about.