Parking during clinical/work hours?

Marie_LPN, RN, LPN, RN · Sep 7, 2003

No fee unless you park in the wrong spot.

We have to park 4 blocks from the hospital.

Jen2 · Sep 7, 2003

No Fee, but at my clinical site they have 20 spots reserved for students. The problem with this is that there are 3 different nursing schools doing their clinicals. Everyone car pools. I'm just lucky this semester, because my clinical site is also my employer, so that I can still take advantage of my employee parking.

Marie_LPN, RN, LPN, RN · Sep 7, 2003

They won't let us take advantage of our employee parking. Even if we park on the top deck.

maire, ASN, RN · Sep 7, 2003

No fee, that is outrageous. Employee parking does leave much to be desired; it's either a 5-minute walk from the parking lot to the hospital or you can take a shuttle bus to the front door.

NurseDixie · Sep 7, 2003

We have to park across the street from the hospital about 3 blocks away, then we have to walk up-hill to the hospital. There is a shuttle bus we can ride though, there is no charge for the parking or the shuttle.

kimmicoobug · Sep 8, 2003

When I was a student, we weren't allowed to park in the parking lots only on the streets. Many times I have been a few minutes late because I would have to park 2 or 3 blocks away. Now that I am an employee at this hospital...we are still supposed to park on the street. The lots are for guests and patients. I don't since I work nights. Much safer to use the lots.

Carolanne · Sep 8, 2003

A fee to park? That's nuts. As if you aren't shelling out enough already between courses, books and gas to get to your clinical site. In the ideal world, there should be adequate parking for all students, but I know at my clinical hospital there never is. They want us to park way the heck down some dark hill near with limited lighting. Last semester my clinical ended at 9-9:30 p.m. and there was no way I was going down there. So if I had to park there on arrival at 2:00 p.m., I went out on my dinner break and moved my car to the front of the hospital where there was lighting and it was much safer, thank you very much!!

Jennerizer, ASN, RN · Sep 8, 2003

Wow, after reading this I'm definitely grateful for my situation. We park in the employee parking lot. No fees, no long walks.

colleen10 · Sep 8, 2003

Right now my clinicals are at a long term care facility out in a residential setting so we have ample parking. But, my instructor told us on Saturday that in a few weeks when we move to our next clinical site, an urban hospital, we are going to have to go to the parking office and purchase a parking pass. She said that we will be able to get a discount since we are students. I think she said it is about $10.00 a month for the pass. But we do not park in a deck or lot, it's off street parking a few blocks away from the hospital. She said that $10.00 is significantly cheaper than what she pays there as an employee.

essarge · Sep 8, 2003

Do I hear the word "Egypt"? When we do our clinicals it is at a massive medical center. Student parking (including med students) is located at the far east side in the back. It takes a good 20 minutes to walk to the clinical area! If you don't park there and are caught parking in any other lot, your car is towed for a hefty fee of $175! One student had their car towed twice...didn't learn the first time I guess.

I just leave extra early and when I get there, grab a coffee in the restaurant inside the hospital before going upstairs to clinicals.

Guest20074 · Sep 8, 2003

We normally pay by semester. Sometimes its included in financial aid. But because the school is moving away from the hospital, we only have to worry about paying for parking when we do clinicals there and that's about $8.00 a day.