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Risk from nurse

Sorry i want to know about my case.
I go to an hospital in my country to take blood to test. What happen when The nurse accidentally put the needle in her hand then used this needle to take blood for me. Can i be in the risk of hiv. Many thanks
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188761 tn?1584567620
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Health care professionals are trained to take care of you. No one there is going to reuse a needle to put your health at risk.

We will not participate in your anxiety driven questions to fuel it further for you. Your thought thats starts with "What if" is the crux of the problem.

If you saw her reusing the needle we have a conversation or this is leading us nowhere.

This is the best this forum can offer you, you need to see a therapist for your irrational fears. You don't have an HIV concern.
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366749 tn?1544695265
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This is an irrational thinking. Please describe your own risk situation, instead of asking hypothetical questions.
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I mean that if the needles put on the nurse hand before take my blood, would i have risk of hiv
This answers all of your HIV questions, and if you can think of any more just reread about the 3. You had zero risk therefore  testing is irrelevant to your situation because you had zero risk. HIV is a fragile virus, which is instantly inactivated in air and also in saliva which means it is effectively dead so it can't infect from touching, external rubbing or oral activities. It doesn't matter if you and they were actively bleeding or had cuts at the time either because the HIV is effectively dead.  
Only 3 adult risks are the following:
1. unprotected penetrating vaginal with a penis
2. unprotected penetrating anal sex with a penis
3. sharing needles that you inject with.
The only way to get HIV is if you did one of the 3. The situation you describe is a long way from any of these 3.
Even with blood, lactation, cuts, rashes, burns, etc the air or the saliva does not allow inactivated virus to infect from touching, external rubbing or oral activities. Doctors have calculated the risk from what you describe to be less than that of being hit by a meteor, therefore no one will get HIV from what you did in the next 40 years of your life either. The above HIV science is 40 years old and very well established, so no detail that you can add to your encounter will change it from zero risk.
If you didn't have one of the 3 then you are just worrying about your own hiv theory - which is unrealistic for you to think that can become reality - so you should move on back to your happy life instead.
What I'm worried about is if the needle stabbed into the nurse, then stabbed into my veins the same way as 3: sharing needles that you inject with
Are they different?
If it stabbed her, it would have hurt her so she would have known it and run for help, and she would not sit there and stab you with it a few seconds later.
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