Commute time to hospital job

1. Hello everyone. I'm curious to know how far you currently drive from home to your job at the hospital. Thanks.
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   About finallyRN7

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   Mar 24

   Joined: Dec '17; Posts: 262; Likes: 904

   One hour and 50 minutes.
   
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   Yes, I am serious.
   No, I'm not quitting my job.
   Yes, I'm actually okay with it.
   No, I don't want to move.
   Yes, I understand that you would never, ever commute that far.
   
   **Just answering a sampling of the questions I get when people hear my answer...
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   Mar 24

   Joined: Oct '10; Posts: 7,582; Likes: 16,936

   I am employed by a hospital but I rarely go there and, when I do, I take public transportation. The hospital is approximately 8 miles from my house. I am community based and work from home as well as visit patients in their homes. Since our program has to cover the entire state between 4 people, our territories are rather large. My farthest away patients live about 50 miles from my home but I get paid mileage and I only have to see each patient once/month. The office where we have our weekly meetings is ~ 10 miles from my house.
   
   When you live in a city, though, distance is not necessarily related to commute time. It took me just as long yesterday to get to a patient who lives 9 miles from my house as it did to get to one who lives 45 miles away the other day.
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   Mar 24

   Joined: Feb '13; Posts: 3,229; Likes: 7,650

   20 minute drive, most of the time is getting from house to highway.
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   Mar 24

   Joined: Aug '04; Posts: 4,364; Likes: 7,652

   35 minutes
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   Mar 24

   Joined: Dec '13; Posts: 1,776; Likes: 3,873

   20-25 minute drive.
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   Mar 24

   Joined: Jun '10; Posts: 10,300; Likes: 42,610

   
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   Mar 24

   Joined: Apr '03; Posts: 13,253; Likes: 37,849

   8 minutes
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    Mar 24

    Joined: Nov '13; Posts: 952; Likes: 2,491

    25 minutes. But parking is a nightmare.
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    Mar 25

    Occupation: RN & RRT Specialty: critical care, ER,ICU, CVSURG, CCU ; From: TX, US ; Joined: Jan '04; Posts: 2,459; Likes: 4,453

    38 mins
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    Mar 25

    Occupation: nurse unit manager Specialty: 10 year(s) of experience in Surgical, quality,management ; From: AU ; Joined: Aug '09; Posts: 1,533; Likes: 2,123

    45 min. However the hospital precinct is about to enter 5 years of construction for MetroTunnel so I dread to think what it is going to do. Once that is finished I may do public transport as the train will literally stop on hospital grounds.
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    Mar 25

    Joined: Mar '18; Posts: 2; Likes: 1

    50 minutes and it is dreadful. I have to glue my eyelids open on the drive home from my night shift.
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    Mar 25

    Joined: Jan '12; Posts: 756; Likes: 1,739

    30-35 minutes to work when I leave between 6 am and 7 am. I never leave later than that because traffic gets too bad.
    
    40-45 minutes to home when I leave between 3 pm and 3:30 pm. 60 minutes when I leave between 5 pm and 5:30 pm.
    
    I have two early days and two late days so I don't mind doing two late days since it is only two.

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