What are the odds of a nurse or doctor being accidentally poked with a patients needle?

Not very common but it happens especially when their attention is distracted. I've seen it happen a number of times.

Before 1982 it was rather common. Happened to me frequently. We rarely wore gloves when drawing blood or giving shots, or even handling body fluids. About that time - mid 19880s - came AIDS awareness and Universal Blood and Body Fluid Precautions. Most sensible health care workers paid attention and the incidence dropped dramatically. Open needles were no longer dropped in the trash, protecting the janitorial service, too.

My best buddy, a surgeon, died from fulminant Hepatitis B after he got stuck with a needle while operating on a North Vietnamese POW. Brilliant guy, six years out of med school!

i don't think its that likely since they are really careful about the whole situation.

Well it would depend on what kind of operation you are speaking of, if its just a normal vaccine i do not think its very likely for them to get poked. But i they arent that careful they could get poked, like if they were in a really critical situation and in a rush it could happen.

Possibly a student nurse can experience that happening as well.

It's not impossible, but not very likely.

(i can imagine a patient like moving and somehow the nurse injecting themselves somehow lol)

I've seen it several times. I even saw a doctor get pricked in an African hospital where 95% of the patients in that ward were HIV positive. Can happen so easily... that's why it's so vital to concentrate on the needle whenever it's exposed. We also had a nurse come in to speak to our class in medical school... he had got pricked and contracted Hepatitis C... awesome guy though. He brought in his old liver in a plastic bag to show us! (Obviously he ended up with a transplant).

Maybe if they were nervous for some reason and they fumbled with it and it dropped and poked the nurse as she tried to catch it. Or maybe the patient (if being injected in the arm) flung their arm up (like if they were scared) right before the nurse injected and it ended up in her arm. The patient could inject the needle into the nurse.

In about three decades, I have had only two needle sticks. one where the injecting needle went straight through the patient into my thumb (doing a local anesthesia)' and one where the patient was uncontrollable.

Almost ZERO, unless the practitioner is a moron.

Been an ER nurse 16 years. I use about 100 needles/shift.

I've NEVER poked myself.

Needlestick injuries are common in healthcare workers, and are definitely underreported.

The likelihood depends on the speciality, I have had a needlestick injury from a contaminated needle maybe 4 times in my career. The riskiest thing I do is minor surgery and stitching wounds.

On the whole I don't view myself as a moron.

Just depends on the situation. In a surgical field, with multiple sharp tools and tiny thread - it becomes easier to poke yourself with a needle. Nonsurgical needle injections in which you are less immersed in a field of tools would likely be a lower risk activity.

Less than 1% statistically.