Scared_nurse

Thanks for your reply. The reason I am worried is because I don't know if the patients blood was on it and I worry that there was!

Hi, I am a first year RN working in a busy emergency department. I was cleaning a patient table, between patients a few weeks ago (without gloves on) and cut myself on a tiny piece of glass that was left on the table (from a broken ampule-looked like frusemide) The glass was stuck in my finger, I pulled it out and let it bleed while running it under water. I didn't tell anyone at the time as I was embarressed. The patient who had just left from that bed, was being treated for hep b. I'm so scared now that I am going to contract this disease. I am having bad anxiety, cry, and can't sleep at night. What should I do now? I think it's too late to say anything at work. In addition, the week after I was cut, I got sick with a cold/flu like symptoms, and last week I had on and off diarrhoea. Is this a bad sign?