You are a brand new medical assistant and it is your first day at a very busy Family Practice clinic. You are shadowing an experienced medical assistant and while setting up a sterile tray she contaminate the field by reaching across it, which cause her scrub top to touch the scalpel handle. You tell her that she touched it, but she say ā€œits fine, no one will know and there is no time to do another oneā€ and continues to set it up. What would you do, if anything? Why or why not?

Relax