The serology supervisor who has been working for the last 20 years in a small rural hospital is training a new employee. A dilution of a patients serum must be made to run a particular test. The supervisor was having difficulty using a serological pipette, so she removed one glove. In uncapping the serum tube, a small amount of serum splashed onto the workbench. She cleaned this up with a paper towel, which she discarded in the regular paper trash. She also spilled a small amount onto her disposable lab coat. She told the new employee that since it was such a small amount, she wasnt going to worry about it, and she continued on to pipette the specimen. She then replaced the glove onto her ungloved hand and said that since it was almost break time, she would wait to wash her hands until then.