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No. 10
Old May 26, 2007, 03:06 PM

Smile Re: scared out of my mind
Originally Posted by sunnyspin View Post
... the reason that I took a HIV test six week later was because I was working in a nursing home and got stuck by a recaped needle. You all would know this if you would have read the least entry that I posted, But because you are so close minded and quite to type cast people, you don't have the siltiest clue of what going on. Further more how dare ypurely with such hateful thing to say. Regardless of what you people think about me and the situation that i have been in. this is very much real that my HIV screen was positive and as if i don;t have enough to deal with I get to log on to the computer to read such hateful thing.
There must be some kind of misunderstanding. I read your previous posts and you got stuck once in a local MD's office and once in a nursing home. Ive never worked in a hospital but I thought that there were containers made to prevent these type of things from happening. If this is common then I'm not sure I want to be a nurse anymore. I'm just confused as to how you can make the same terrible mistake twice within such a short period. Do tell.
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No. 11
Old May 31, 2007, 06:30 AM

Default Re: scared out of my mind
As long as the containers are used properly (the sharp is dropped into the box) I doubt they would spill back out.
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No. 12
from traumaRUs
Old May 31, 2007, 08:08 AM

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I agree that a sharps container - the ones available commercially are difficult to have things just "fall" out of them.
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