Dirty Needle

I can't believe I stuck myself. When I felt the stick, I was shocked, and I thought, no way, there's no way what I just felt was that needle going into me. So, I finished up with the patient, threw away my gloves and left the room, and in the hallway I squeezed my finger to see if it would bleed, to see if I did in fact stick myself or if it was just some other stinging sensation that I felt. Well, I bled. Then I went and told the charge nurse, and he asked me, well are you sure you stuck the patient too? And I thought so, so I went back to the room and squeezed the patient's arm to see if it would bleed, and it did. I accidently stuck myself with a dirty needle today. I still don't understand how in the world it happened, especially since I was using our new insulin pens that are pretty much fool proof so that you won't stick yourself. I never got stuck with the old kind. I'm actually not worried... I mean it's highly unlikely that this man has anything, but it's kinda weird to think that he could have something and that now I could have something... but even if he had HIV there's a super low chance that I would be able to contract it from a dirty needle stick. Anyways, his blood got sent off to the lab today to be tested, so that we'll know whether or not I need to be tested. I'm sure it's fine. They won't test the blood till Monday.