What's the furthest you had to travel for a clinical?

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So I got my schedule for my next term with my clinicals. I am in night school which means I have weekend clinicals and I don't mind that at all. So my next term, is my med surge and it's at a hospital setting. The only hospital that would take lpn students is in 1 1/2-2 hrs away AND have to be there at 6:45am-7:15pm every Saturday.

Has anybody else had to travel far for a clinical?

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Specializes in Home Health, PDN, LTC, subacute.

1 hour because the hospital they usually used had a nursing strike

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I had a friend who commuted 60 miles way one way to attend school. Class started at 8am, he would leave at 6am and would barely make it in time for class. Did it for a whole year. When we had clinicals it was even further for him, about 80 miles one way. Of course there was always traffic, props to him!

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A little over an hour. How many times a week and for how many weeks will you have clinicals at that site?

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cs2014 I'll be there every Saturday for 5 weeks

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My farthest away was 30 minutes. That sucks that you have to drive so far away.

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Oh then that's not bad. Sucks for a little bit but it's super temporary.

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Yea it's not that bad that it's only for 5 Saturdays. Only bad thing is that I'm not a morning person and with me gotta be up early, it's gonna be a long day

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ouch that sucks. mine is 20 minutes away

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Specializes in LTC.

When I was in school my furthest clinical site was literally 5 minutes away. I lived right down the street. I always got their early though anyway. I'm sorry you have to drive so far :( but it will be worth it in the end!

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Specializes in Family Nurse Practitioner.

1.5 hrs each way and paying $17 in tolls each day I went. Whoever decided NP students should have to find their own clinicals needs a swift kick?

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My clinicals in a hospital was in Oklahoma and I am in texas. It was one hour and forty five min. each way.

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