Nursing shortage being felt in Lubbock - MyFoxLubbock.com

Amanda Veesart has a numbers problem. The Clinical Director at TTUHSC's School of Nursing doesn't lack for applicants, there are plenty. She just can't get them enrolled. There aren't enough professors and slots.

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Tech's Health Sciences Center has simulator labs for nursing students, so they can do their clinicals at the school in place of a hospital setting. The school also starts training classes three times a year to make the turn around time a little faster.

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