A TTUHSC preceptor close to home, lined up before your clinical term.
TTUHSC's graduate FAQ puts it in one line: "Students are responsible for obtaining their own preceptors." That search is the whole of what we do. We find preceptors near you who fit your TTUHSC track and gather the details SON staff and faculty need to approve the clinician and the facility, so the electronic preceptor agreement clears in time.
Start your placement plan
Your TTUHSC track, the town you live in and the term of your next clinical course. A placement advisor replies with preceptors and sites that fit.
The split between TTUHSC and you
TTUHSC keeps a list of preceptors graduate students used in the past two years, runs affiliation agreements with facilities, and has SON staff and faculty approve every preceptor and facility. On the BSN to DNP pages it adds a preceptor team that helps with selecting and contracting. Finding the clinician, though, sits with the student, in the student's home area.
We take that part on. For each clinical course, from Primary Care I to the FNP Practicum or the last DNP practicum, we locate a preceptor who fits and assemble the license, certification and facility details TTUHSC's approval asks for. TTUHSC approves; our job is to hand it a clean, complete request.
Every preceptor needs a new electronic preceptor agreement each semester, even one who precepted you last term.
Four markers from the first call to approved hours
Each one lines up with a step in TTUHSC's own clinical process.
Your TTUHSC track, the clinical course ahead, the town you live in and how far you can drive.
Clinicians who fit: family primary care, acute care, pediatrics, psychiatric mental health, midwifery or leadership.
License, certification and facility details ready so SON staff and faculty can approve preceptor and site.
The electronic preceptor agreement for the term, then hours, with a backup ready if a preceptor steps away.
Pick your TTUHSC program
Your clinical courses and hours, who can precept you, where, and when to start looking. From TTUHSC's own catalog and nursing pages.
- Who precepts
- A family primary care preceptor that TTUHSC's staff and faculty approve, along with the facility
- Where
- Your home area, in Texas or a state TTUHSC accepts graduate students from
- Start looking
- Before each term: a new electronic preceptor agreement for every preceptor
- Who precepts
- Psychiatric mental health preceptors near home, approved by TTUHSC
- Where
- Child and adolescent, adult and complex-patient psychiatric settings
- Start looking
- Spring start; the first rotation falls in the second spring
- Who precepts
- Preceptors and sites approved by the Program Director, arranged with TTUHSC's preceptor/site coordinators
- Where
- Birth, prenatal, gynecologic and postpartum care settings
- Start looking
- Fall Two onward, after a year of birth support, NRP and EFM
- Who precepts
- Preceptors you find, with faculty and the preceptor team helping select and contract
- Where
- Local clinical sites approved by TTUHSC
- Start looking
- Summer start; FNP clinicals begin in year three, PMHNP in the second spring
- Who precepts
- Professional mentors or preceptors approved by faculty (SON faculty may serve)
- Where
- Often your own workplace, if it meets the course objectives
- Start looking
- Summer start; practice hours from the second semester
- Who precepts
- A nurse leader who can precept a practice-site project
- Where
- A health care organization near you
- Start looking
- One practicum each semester, from the first
How TTUHSC runs graduate clinicals
Named the way TTUHSC names them, from the catalog, the Student Handbook and the program pages.
Guides by TTUHSC program
Every TTUHSC nursing program with clinical or practicum hours, and the preceptor it calls for.
The clinical courses
Hours, settings and preceptor fit for each TTUHSC clinical sequence.
Preceptors near you
From the South Plains to North Texas, region by region.
Before you start
Does TTUHSC place nurse practitioner students with preceptors?
TTUHSC's graduate FAQ makes students responsible for obtaining their own preceptors, and offers a list of preceptors used in the past two years as a guide. Nurse-midwifery is the coordinated exception. We run the search with you: see finding your own preceptor.
Can I do TTUHSC clinicals where I live?
Yes, in a state TTUHSC accepts graduate students from. Its FAQ says hours can be completed in your home area once SON staff and faculty approve both the preceptor and the facility. The home-area guide covers the details.
Which states can't enroll in TTUHSC's graduate nursing programs?
TTUHSC's licensure page marks ten states where it is unable to accept graduate students, including California, New York and Louisiana. The licensure disclosure guide lists them all.
What do we actually do for TTUHSC students?
We look for clinicians and facilities that fit your TTUHSC course, collect the license, certification and site details approval needs, and keep a backup ready. The steps are on the process page.
Who approves a preceptor we find?
TTUHSC. SON staff and faculty approve both the preceptor and the facility, and you complete the electronic preceptor agreement for that preceptor each semester. See the electronic preceptor agreement.
Your TTUHSC preceptor search, run by specialists.
Tell us your TTUHSC track, your next clinical course and the town you'll train near. We find preceptors who fit the course and pull together what SON staff and faculty need to approve both the clinician and the facility, early enough for the electronic preceptor agreement to go through before the term.
- Preceptors matched to the track: family primary care, adult-gerontology acute care, pediatrics, psychiatric mental health
- License, certification and facility details ready for TTUHSC's preceptor and facility approval
- In Lubbock, Amarillo, Abilene, the Permian Basin, Dallas-Fort Worth and the states TTUHSC accepts
Start your placement plan
Your track, your town and your next clinical term is all we need to begin.