How many use a car for class/clinicals?

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I just wanted to collect a general survey as to how many nursing students use cars. I haven't had a car none through my time in college, but then again I live in a big city. It's troublesome sometimes, but you have to do what you have to do to meet your goals. Any other bus riders here, or are you all drivers or carpoolers?

Used Public transportation throughout my pre-reqs because I was terrified of driving but the nursing school I was admitted into is almost an hour away so I had to rush to get a car and learn to drive. If I was admitted into a school near me and the bus system here was better, I probably would still be using the bus.

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I love having my own car. Even if I lived in a big city, I would still own a car.

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Car. I live in a big city (near San Francisco) with great mass transit, but I've been going to school at night, and I don't especially feel safe riding the bus home at 10:30 at night...alone.

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Specializes in Infusion.

Car for clinicals, occasionally walk to classes. If I took the bus to clinicals, it would take an hour or more each way. I don't have that much time to waste sitting on a bus.

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I will be taking our car to class and clinicals. We live 45 miles away, out in the country, there's no biking or taking a bus option.

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Car. I live in Connecticut, and my class is 30 mins by car. There's Metro North, but not much else in terms of a mass transit system!

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...Metro North train...runs from Grand Central Station in NYC through the NY and CT 'burbs.

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I can't move on in life without a car. My house is south ,my school is north, my clinicals are west,east. I drive 45mins to go to clinicals. I wake up at5 am, I can't get to school without a car.

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Specializes in Med-Surg/urology.

I drive. I live in the DC suburbs, but my school & clinicals are located in Baltimore City & Baltimore suburbs. That's about an hour drive..I feel like I spend half of the week in my car! But I keep telling myself it's only temporary :)

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Specializes in Emergency Dept. Trauma. Pediatrics.

I am not sure what I would do without a car. I don't even go anywhere often (when I don't have school) yet if I don't have a car on the rare occasion it drives me nuts.

My husband needed to use my car for something once and our other car was getting worked on, and his work van isn't really usable outside of what he does for work. I had no plans to go anywhere, I knew I wasn't going to go anywhere; I was going crazy the whole day knowing if I wanted to get up and go, I couldn't.

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Specializes in Case mgmt., rehab, (CRRN), LTC & psych.
I just wanted to collect a general survey as to how many nursing students use cars. I haven't had a car none through my time in college, but then again I live in a big city. It's troublesome sometimes, but you have to do what you have to do to meet your goals. Any other bus riders here, or are you all drivers or carpoolers?
I have always driven to school and clinical sites because I have always lived a great distance from the schools that I have attended. I lived 95 miles from my LVN program and 225 miles from the RN completion program. It would be hard to pull this off without a vehicle.
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Specializes in Med-Surg/Telemetry.

I scoot around Los Angeles in my Vespa. The gas mileage is incredible and it allows me to maneuver around a fair amount of the infamous LA traffic that can make the 10 mile commute to my current clinical site seem like 50 otherwise. And parking is not a problem.

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