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F-1 status RN to BSN program

I'm a F-1 status student Nurse and will be done with the ADN program coming Friday. I have looked around a bit for schools that offer RN to BSN program. All of them offer online classes. Being an international student i'm required to take on-site classes (6 hours of so i believe). i do not want to join a regular BSN program and redo all the classes and clinicals that i had to do for the ADN program.

Is anyone else in the same boat? any suggestions?

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    You won't redo clinicals or classes you've already took in your ADN

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    Moved to the international forum

    Check with the school on what you need to do to enter the program. I would be surprised if already a ADN that you have to redo clinicals etc.

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    Where did you get the idea that you have to redo all your clinicals? When you go from RN-BSN you will have a clinical rotation but not from scratch. Check with the school nursing counselor and present him/her with your concerns. Good Luck

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    i did check with a few schools.

    being a international student, i cannot take all online classes. Most colleges that offer the ADN-BSN program only offer it online. The international student advisor in my school basically said , "there's currently no schools that i'm aware of ".

    All other schools that i contacted said, if i couldn't take online classes , the only other thing they could offer me was regular BSN program. (which would mean everything starting at the basics).

    had any other international student here completed the ADN-RN program ?

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    You don't have to start from scratch when you go for your BSN. You can go in as a transfer student as most of us did who didn't start off at the 4 year university to begin with. You would still need to take general education and any upper division courses that meet the requirements for your degree but you wont be starting off at the bottom again. Look into it. Good Luck

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    I have the same situation . I am an international student who just finished the ADN program. I'am looking for adn to bsn program full time in campus but unfortunately all the programs are either online or par time and they don't offer I20. Any suggestion PLEASE

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    You don't have to start from scratch when you go for your BSN. You can go in as a transfer student as most of us did who didn't start off at the 4 year university to begin with. You would still need to take general education and any upper division courses that meet the requirements for your degree but you wont be starting off at the bottom again. Look into it. Good Luck

    the OP knows that...his issue is finding a program that's not offered online because his F1 Visa requires a classroom-based program so a few schools gave him the option of going through the BSN from scratch instead.

    i did check with a few schools.

    being a international student, i cannot take all online classes. Most colleges that offer the ADN-BSN program only offer it online. The international student advisor in my school basically said , "there's currently no schools that i'm aware of ".

    All other schools that i contacted said, if i couldn't take online classes , the only other thing they could offer me was regular BSN program. (which would mean everything starting at the basics).

    had any other international student here completed the ADN-RN program ?

    There's a website that lists RN to BSN program by state and further separates them between online and classrom-based. It does not specify which ones are part time and which ones are full time. I would look through the lists and call schools to inquire.

    The website is: http://rntobsnprogram.org/

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    My understanding is the OP is looking for schools that offer traditional classroom setting but is findingpst ADN-BSN programs offer it online. The OP doesn't want to start from taking everything from general education to nursing courses. I told the original poster that there are schools that allow for transfers and they wouldn't have to redo some of the courses. What am I missing.

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