{"id":2225,"date":"2025-04-22T13:42:31","date_gmt":"2025-04-22T18:42:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp.stolaf.edu\/nursing\/?page_id=2225"},"modified":"2026-06-20T16:54:28","modified_gmt":"2026-06-20T21:54:28","slug":"clinicals","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/wp.stolaf.edu\/nursing\/clinicals\/","title":{"rendered":"Clinicals"},"content":{"rendered":"<div data-modular-content-collection>\t\t\t<div\n\t\t\tclass=\"site-section site-panel__image_overlay panel panel-image_overlay site-section__bg--default\"\n\t\t\tdata-depth=\"\"\n\t\t\tdata-js-panel=\"image-overlay\"\n\t\t>\n\t\n\t\t<div class=\"site-section__inner site-section__inner--no-padding\">\n\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t<div role=\"img\" aria-label=\"nursing-9513\" style=\"background-image:url('https:\/\/wp.stolaf.edu\/nursing\/files\/2025\/03\/nursing-9513-e1741128599753-1600x850.jpg');\" loading=\"lazy\"  class=\"site-section__bg-img site-section__bg-img--m-stack\"><\/div>\n\n\t\t<style>\n\t\t@media all and ( 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srcset=\"https:\/\/wp.stolaf.edu\/nursing\/files\/2025\/03\/untitled-101-of-145-520x300.jpg 520w, \nhttps:\/\/wp.stolaf.edu\/nursing\/files\/2025\/03\/untitled-101-of-145-820x600.jpg 820w, \nhttps:\/\/wp.stolaf.edu\/nursing\/files\/2025\/03\/untitled-101-of-145-1120x900.jpg 1120w\" loading=\"lazy\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\n\t\t<div class=\"site-grid__col site-grid__col-safari-fix\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"site-panel__imgtxt-content\">\n\t\t\t\t\n<div class=\"c-text\">\n\n\t\n\n\t\t\t<div class=\"c-text__desc t-content\" data-depth=\"0\" data-name=\"content\" data-autop=\"true\" data-livetext>\n\t\t\t<h4><span style=\"font-family: Calluna Sans; font-weight: 800; padding: 5px; text-transform: uppercase; font-variant-numeric: lining-nums; background-color: #e4a01b; color: #242421; font-size: 26px; border-radius: 10px;\">Clinical Transportation<\/span><\/h4>\n<p>We partner with clinical sites in rural and urban settings.\u00a0 All clinicals will require transportation during the junior and senior years in the nursing program.\u00a0Students must make their own arrangements for transportation to clinicals.\u00a0 St. Olaf College and the nursing department does not provide cars, college vans, or any other means of transportation to students.\u00a0 Students are responsible for the costs associated with transportation to clinicals, such as gas and parking fees.<\/p>\n\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\n\t<\/div>\n\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t<\/div>\n\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\n\n\n\t\t\t<div\n\t\t\tclass=\"site-section site-panel__wysiwyg panel panel-wysiwyg site-section__bg--white\"\n\t\t\tdata-depth=\"\"\n\t\t\tdata-js-panel=\"wysiwyg\"\n\t\t>\n\t\n\t\t\t<div class=\"site-section__inner l-wrapper site-section__bg--white\">\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t<div class=\"site-section__content \">\n\t\t<div class=\"site-grid site-grid__wrapper site-grid__wrapper-stagger\"\n\t\t\t data-depth=\"0\"\n\t\t\t data-name=\"columns\"\n\t\t\t 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