International nursing student looking for job! Please HELP!

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Hi, I am an international student, and I am about to graduate from Nursing school and get an ASN (Associate Degree in Nursing). I have been living in Louisiana for 4 years. For international student, after graduate, I will be provided a work permit( a social security number),and that will allow me to work as an RN in the US for 1 year under OPT program (Optional Practical training), and then I will have to go back to my home country. But nurses in my home country do not have value at all, and I don't think I will ever get a chance to use the skills and knowledge I have learned here. So I am looking for hospitals or organizations that would sponsor me and offer working visa/ green card so that I can continue to work in the US for a long time? I have done so many researches about this, but there is nothing positive . I also thought about continuing to go to school to earn a Bachelor degree. But so far I haven't found any colleges that offer RN-to-BSN program on CAMPUS( because international students have to be physically presence at school, and I can't take online/ hybrid program). Also tuition fees for international students are extremely expensive. Please leave some comments if you have any information about hospitals/agencies "anywhere" in the US would sponsor international students or if you know a school offers cheap RN-BSN program on CAMPUS. I have spent so much time, effort and money studying to be an RN, and it was't easy for me at all to be an international student and try to survive in the US. I really need HELP. Please HELP me .

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This is something we see more regularly now both with finding employer but also finding a job whilst on OPT and you do have a certain period of time to find a job on OPT before it comes invalid. Unfortunately there is not a demand for nurses in the US these days. If you look at moving to another country these days BSN is required. You may have no option but do a full 4 year BSN course if you can't find a bridge course on campus or go home.

You could try Texas and some of the hospitals there

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Apply to Madonna University in Michigan. I am currently taking RN-BSN course here. It will buy you some time.

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Apply to Madonna University in Michigan. I am currently taking RN-BSN course here. It will buy you some time.
Hi, are you an international student too? Thanks a lot for your response. How much is the tuition fees at Madonna University for RN-BSN program?
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Hey there!

I'm currently studying BSN program in East Central University in Oklahoma. I transferred from a community college as a pre-nursing student so I don't know about RN-BSN pathway, but I saw information on the school's website saying that they do have RN-BSN program and it's quite small, just about 7 students in 2017 cohort and maybe 24 students the year before.

Anyway, consider this school because the tuition is so cheap. I'm an international student too and they allow us to pay US citizen tuition, so it's about 14k~16k a year including tuition, housing, insurance, basically everything. The longer you study there, the lower the tuition they charge you, that's what the students here told me!

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