What's the farthest you've gone for clinicals?

[greeniebean]

Hey guys. I'm all set to apply to nursing school when I somehow wondered onto a page of my school's nursing website I've never been before. I clicked on a few links including one that went into detail about clinicals. Well out of the blue I read that in the last 2 semesters of the program a few of the clinical sites are considered "non-commutable" and temporary housing has to be found and paid for by the student. I have 2 small children, so this would be impossible for me. When were they planning on telling us! This page was buried in the site, you have to click on at least 5 links to get to it. It also says that at first they try not to give you a clinical site more than an hour away from your home. Yeah- I live an hour and a half from my school already, so an hour away to me is really 2 and a half hours.

Is this typical? Has anyone every had a "non commutable" clinical site. What's the farthest you've ever had to go?

[seamel]

I hope that mine are not as far as other people are saying. How are you supposed to have time to study when you are driving like 3 hours a day! Well my school is in Seattle so when clinicals start I'm pretty sure there are about 15 clinical sites they use within 30 minutes of campus.