Winter driving to school

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Hey everyone I got accepted into an LPN school that starts in January I live in canada so it is a two year course. The school I got into is one hour from where I live (and moving is not an option) just wondering if anyone else did this? How hard was it to drive in the winter a long distance? Any advice or experiences really! Thanks y'all have a great night

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Specializes in Case mgmt., rehab, (CRRN), LTC & psych.

Although I have never dealt with brutal Canadian winters, I did deal with very occasional winter driving conditions during school. In addition, I lived three hours from the school. Since I lived so far from the school, my solution was to stay in the same city as the school when wintry weather was expected to impact local road conditions.

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Specializes in Postpartum, Mother/Baby, Comm. Health, Geriatric.

I am from Detroit, MI (right across the bridge from Canada...I don't know if your in Windsor) and I know at least 5 people that commute to Ohio (Toledo area) about an hour drive from Detroit. You can do it!

My class schedule is only Mondays (3-5pm, 6-9pm), Tues/Thurs (6-8pm) and Saturday Clinicals/lab (7am-7pm) so maybe yours will not be a typical Mon-Thurs or Mon-Fri LPN program either. I really love my schedule.

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I am from Detroit, MI (right across the bridge from Canada...I don't know if your in Windsor) and I know at least 5 people that commute to Ohio (Toledo area) about an hour drive from Detroit. You can do it!

My class schedule is only Mondays (3-5pm, 6-9pm), Tues/Thurs (6-8pm) and Saturday Clinicals/lab (7am-7pm) so maybe yours will not be a typical Mon-Thurs or Mon-Fri LPN program either. I really love my schedule.

What are your classes...I only have fundamentals of nursing from 1 to 350 on Tues and pharmacology fro 10 to 1150 Tues morning and clinicals on wed from 3 to 11 and do you know your location of clinicals I am doing Saginaw Rehabilitation Center it's a nursing home I think for my 1 St semester... and I am driving 40 minutes there and back for the commute

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Specializes in Postpartum, Mother/Baby, Comm. Health, Geriatric.

Fundamentals (Mon 6-9pm), Pharm 1 (Mon 3-5pm), BIOL A&P 1 (T/TH 6-8PM), Lab for the first 6 weeks SAT 8-12, then clinicals on SAT 7am-7pm at a nursing home as well. Its about 20 min away from me.

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