Sadly, I have to spend all my money on my last 4 nursing prerequisites (money that I have been saving up for 3 years now to buy my first car with).
But now I won't have a car for nursing school for getting to and from clinical sites. My whole point of saving money for a car was so that I could commute the 45 mins to school everyday and not have to pay the 10,000 dorm fee for 3 years.
But it looks like I will have to since the school is in a very rural area in Illinois, and it would take a 6 hour commute (in total) everyday with public transit.
So my question is how did you guys manage without a car in nursing school?
I'm especially worried about the Home Health clinical because it such a rural area that you will have to go very far and wide to get to other people's home.
Not to mention that I just counted the school's clinical listing site and there are a total of 59 various clinical sites. Life just got so much harder for me.
I would never advise this. What if your "carpool buddy" doesn't show up? Or is late/sick? Your clinical instructor won't care, you'll still be in trouble for it. Plus, it's no one's job to be your chauffer, and you risk that people will get tired of hauling you around. Take out whatever loan you have to, just get a car. Trust me on that.
missnursingstudent19
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I would never advise this. What if your "carpool buddy" doesn't show up? Or is late/sick? Your clinical instructor won't care, you'll still be in trouble for it. Plus, it's no one's job to be your chauffer, and you risk that people will get tired of hauling you around. Take out whatever loan you have to, just get a car. Trust me on that.