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Students regularly encounter inappropriate patient behavior. It often goes unreported, minimized, or tolerated. Join the conversation with content expert Leigh Ann Nurick, RDH, MA, MS and discover why it happens and how you can intervene effectively to create a safe and supportive clinical learning environment

Learning Objectives:

• Assess types of inappropriate patient behaviors.
• Adopt strategies to maintain a respectful healthcare environment.

Educators Platform Masterminds are dynamic two-hour virtual sessions building on each other’s challenges, ideas and successes in the presence of a content expert. Mastermind sessions are thoughtfully facilitated to create an environment for like-minded colleagues to share and learn from one another with the goal of collective professional growth and development. Sessions are uniquely tailored to the needs of participants. Those attending will have the opportunity to create strong connections with other participants to last a whole career.

More about our content expert: Leigh Ann Nurick, RDH, MA, MS, is Clinical Associate Professor and Interim Dental Hygiene Program Director at Texas A&M College of Dentistry. She holds advanced degrees in dental hygiene and theology and has extensive experience teaching across the dental hygiene curriculum.

She presents nationally on the humanistic dimensions of dental education, with particular emphasis on maintaining healthy faculty–student–patient boundaries and navigating inappropriate patient behavior. Her work centers on fostering respectful clinical environments and equipping educators and students with practical strategies to address difficult situations with professionalism and dignity.

Attendees of Educators Platform Mastermind sessions will earn 2 CEU in Educational Methods.