Out of town clinical sites?

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Specializes in CVICU.

How many of y'all are assigned clinical sites that in another town? Last semester, our program only offered one LTC facility for first semester that was in town. This semester, the one I will be starting, doesn't offer any in town.

There are 2 that are located in a town 29 miles away, and another that is 19 miles away. I know it doesn't seem bad but that is 35 mins to get to the first one and 25 mins for the second one. It seems like in a city of 40k people, our school would have been able to secure a clinical agreement with one of the dozen LTC facilities in this city.

That gas is going to get expensive on top of commuting to class 4 days a week. We have clinicals twice a week.

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Last semester my clinical site was an hour a way. Sucks when you have to be there before daylight...

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We had to drive one hour each way for our pediatric and psych clinicals. We carpooled and took turns driving. One facility also cost $20 to park per clinical day. We split it up.

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Specializes in CVICU.

We will definitely be carpooling. But we don't know who is in what group yet, and won't know until Monday. Luckily my clinical is from 4pm-7pm so getting up early won't be an issue.

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Specializes in CCRN, ED, Unit Manager.
We will definitely be carpooling. But we don't know who is in what group yet, and won't know until Monday. Luckily my clinical is from 4pm-7pm so getting up early won't be an issue.

Your clinical is 3 hours?

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Specializes in CVICU.
Your clinical is 3 hours?

Yes. First semester is LTC, twice a week for 3 hours each.

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We had to travel 45 minutes.

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When I was in RN school our clinical site was an hour away and we had to be there at 6 am. Lots of coffee was consumed that semester.

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Specializes in CVICU.

I wonder if they do this on purpose. Seems very common.

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I'm going into my first semester and our clinicals will be in LTC - there are two facilities where we can do clinicals (depending on the day) and neither one is in town: one is about 20 minutes away and the other is 40 minutes away.

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Specializes in Hospice.

Most of our sites are 40 mins to 1 hour away.

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Most of my clinicals will be at various hospitals in Seattle, which is about 40 minutes away from my house and about 20 minutes away from the school. Day shift clinicals start before the traffic gets bad, and when the evening shifts start the traffic is bad but in the opposite direction, so it shouldn't be too horrible of a commute for me.

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