{"id":976,"date":"2012-07-25T02:26:00","date_gmt":"2012-07-25T02:26:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/eaumaison.wordpress.com\/2012\/07\/25\/sharp"},"modified":"2012-07-25T02:26:00","modified_gmt":"2012-07-25T02:26:00","slug":"sharp","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eaumaison.us\/index.php\/2012\/07\/25\/sharp\/","title":{"rendered":"Sharp"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mobile-photo\"><a href=\"http:\/\/eaumaison.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/54899-photo-798543.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/eaumaison.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/54899-photo-798543.jpg?w=224\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5768927912351983362\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Three years of nursing plus one year of clinicals, and I got my first dirty needle stick last night.  <\/p>\n<p>It happened after working for 14.5 hours.  I was cleaning up an apheresis treatment set-up.  I had taken over the treatment from another nurse.  He used a needle at a junction where I prefer to use a stopcock.  He also used a needle without a safety device.  Grrr.  <\/p>\n<p>I slipped while trying to detach it for disposal in the sharps bin.  A little poke can generate a lot of hubbub and paperwork. They did a rapid HIV on te patient that came back negative.  This morning I had blood draw at my occupational health clinic.  My manager has been very helpful and supportive in figuring out all the paperwork.  The patient had a hepatitis panel drawn earlier this month which was also negative, but they redrew for protocol.  <\/p>\n<p>I&#039;m certain nothing will come of this.  She&#039;s clean, I&#039;m vaccinated, yada yada.  But boy does it suck to get a needlestick.  You can&#039;t help but feel super stressed.  <\/p>\n<p>I can&#039;t wait for this summer to end.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Three years of nursing plus one year of clinicals, and I got my first dirty needle stick last night. It happened after working for 14.5 hours. I was cleaning up an apheresis treatment set-up. I had taken over the treatment from another nurse. He used a needle at a junction where I prefer to use [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-976","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","post-preview"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eaumaison.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/976","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eaumaison.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eaumaison.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eaumaison.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eaumaison.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=976"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/eaumaison.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/976\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eaumaison.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=976"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eaumaison.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=976"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eaumaison.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=976"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}