TTUHSC School of Nursing celebrates 45 years, looks to the future

The first stop on the tour goes by the name "Wrangling," part of a broader push to mark four and a half decades of training nurses across West Texas and beyond. TTUHSC's nursing school has campuses scattered well past Lubbock, and this anniversary run reflects that reach.

For Lubbock, the milestone says something about how far TTUHSC's footprint extends from its home base near the Texas Tech campus. The school has spent 45 years turning out nurses who end up in hospitals and clinics across the state. Many of them started in classrooms here before scattering to the cities now hosting anniversary events.

For nursing students and alumni, this is a chance to reconnect with a program that shaped their careers. For the region, it is a reminder of how much of West Texas health care traces back to training that happens in Lubbock. People who work in local hospitals, from University Medical Center on down, likely passed through this same program at some point.

Four cities, one anniversary, and a nursing school that's been quietly staffing West Texas hospitals for 45 years without much fanfare until now.