TTUHSC's preceptor list and preceptor team
TTUHSC backs graduate students' preceptor searches in two named ways: a roster of clinicians who precepted for TTUHSC in the past two years, and, on the BSN to DNP side, a preceptor team that works with faculty on selecting and contracting. Both are real help. Neither takes the search off your hands, so it pays to know exactly what each one covers.
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What the two-year list is
TTUHSC keeps a listing of preceptors who worked with its graduate students over the last two years and makes it available to current graduate students as a guide. The word guide carries weight. The list records who has precepted for TTUHSC before; it says nothing about who has an opening next term.
TTUHSC's public pages do not say where the list is posted, how it is sorted, or how often it is refreshed. Because it is described as available to current graduate students, expect to reach it once you are enrolled, and ask the Graduate Coordinator or your course faculty for the current version rather than relying on a copy passed between classmates.
Think of the list as proof that a clinician and a facility have worked with TTUHSC in the recent past. That is useful, because it suggests the approval and contracting groundwork was laid once before, but each placement is still reviewed on its own.
Turning a name on the list into a confirmed preceptor
- Filter for your courseKeep only clinicians whose practice matches the population and setting of your upcoming clinical course. An adult acute care name is no help for a pediatric primary care course.
- Filter for distanceTTUHSC lets you complete hours in your home area, so start with names you can reach on a working week. See home-area clinicals for how that plays out across Texas.
- Verify current detailsTwo years is long enough for a clinician to change practices, cut back hours or stop precepting. Confirm the workplace and license status before reaching out.
- Ask about your termName the course, the semester dates and the weekly time you need. A specific request gets a faster, clearer answer.
- Check the facilityA clinician who moved may now work somewhere without a TTUHSC agreement, which adds a contracting step before you can start.
Every current graduate student can open the same list, so the best-known names are also the most contacted. Treat it as one source of leads beside your own network and outside help.
Who the preceptor team is
The preceptor team appears on TTUHSC's BSN to DNP pages. Asked whether students will have to find their own preceptors, the FNP page answers: "Yes, but faculty and the preceptor team will work closely to facilitate selecting and contracting with preceptors and facilities." The BSN to DNP PMHNP page gives the same reply to a question about how clinical preceptors are selected.
TTUHSC does not publish a roster for the team. The nearest named structure is Clinical Placement, Affiliation Agreements, and Preceptor Management, a unit inside the SON's Office of Student Success. The 2026-27 catalog lists a Unit Manager, a Graduate Coordinator, an Affiliation Agreements role and an Undergraduate Coordinator there. Nurse-Midwifery has its own TTUHSC preceptor/site coordinators, part of that program's coordinated model.
What facilitating and contracting cover
The two verbs in TTUHSC's answer describe different jobs. Facilitating selection is guidance: faculty weigh whether a preceptor you propose fits the course, and the list and the team help you find names worth proposing. The calls, the pitch and the confirmation still start with you, which is what the "Yes" at the front of that answer means.
Contracting is the paperwork that makes a placement formal. Texas rules for APRN programs require the school, the preceptor and the facility to put each party's role in writing. At TTUHSC that takes the shape of facility affiliation agreements and the electronic preceptor agreement you complete for each preceptor every semester.
So TTUHSC's help is strongest once a willing preceptor exists. Reaching that willing preceptor is the stage the student owns.
Making the most of TTUHSC's help
A few habits get more value out of the list and the team, especially in a term with several deadlines stacked together.
- Ask which version of the preceptor list is current before you start calling
- Bring faculty a named preceptor and facility, not an open question; a specific proposal gets a specific answer
- Say early when a facility has no TTUHSC agreement, so contracting can start alongside everything else
- BSN to DNP students: bring the preceptor team in as soon as a lead looks real, since selecting and contracting are exactly what the program says it helps with
- Keep every approval message, agreement and schedule in one folder you can find mid-semester
None of this shortens the list of steps, but it removes the waiting between them. The Graduate Coordinator and your course faculty are the people TTUHSC names for these questions; the clinical roles guide sorts out who handles what.
How we build on TTUHSC's list and team
We take on the stage TTUHSC leaves with you. Our placement desk searches well beyond the two-year list, across the clinicians and facilities around your home, and brings you preceptors who fit your specific course and have said yes to hosting a TTUHSC student in your term.
Because contracting runs through TTUHSC, we hand you a package ready for it: the preceptor's license and certification, the practice setting, the facility's details and agreement status, and what the semester agreement will ask. The school's staff and faculty decide; we see to it that nothing in front of them is missing or out of step with TTUHSC's rules. Compare routes on placement help versus finding your own.
Questions TTUHSC students ask
Can I see TTUHSC's preceptor list before I enroll?
TTUHSC describes the list as available to current graduate students, so plan on reaching it after you enroll rather than as an applicant. If you are planning ahead, build your own shortlist of clinicians near home now and compare it with TTUHSC's list once you have access.
Does the preceptor team find a preceptor for me?
TTUHSC's wording is that faculty and the preceptor team facilitate selecting and contracting, right after answering yes to whether students find their own preceptors. In practice you bring the candidate, and the team and faculty help confirm the fit and carry the agreements that follow.
Is the preceptor team only for BSN to DNP students?
The phrase appears on the BSN to DNP FNP and PMHNP pages, and the MSN pages do not use it. MSN students still have the two-year list and the Office of Student Success unit that handles placement and agreements. Ask the Graduate Coordinator which support applies to your track.
What if every preceptor on the list says no?
Move to other sources straight away: your professional network, clinicians near home who are not on the list, and a placement service. Keep your course and term dates in every request so a yes can move forward quickly. For a gap that opens mid-term, see backup preceptors.
Does the list show whether a facility has an agreement with TTUHSC?
TTUHSC does not describe what the list contains. A preceptor's past work with TTUHSC students hints at a past agreement with that facility, but agreements can lapse and clinicians change jobs, so confirm the facility's current status with the Graduate Coordinator before you commit.
Related pages
Last checked 2026-09-26
We check these pages against TTUHSC's catalog, Student Handbook, program pages and licensure disclosures. Your course faculty, your program director and the plan of study for your cohort have the final word.
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