ineedsomehelp

Hi, guys and girls, how are you today? first of all, i will introduce myself to you and hope you all would have some understanding of my background. I am an international student, I recently graduated from college with a biological science degree and currently working in a hospital's research laboratory. i wanted to become a doctor to help patients clinically, but lately i found that to be impossible, due to the tuition/and my visa status. I also was considering nurse, since nurses can help patients clinically as well, and is alot cheaper to go to school than medical school's 200-300k dollar tuition I am really looking forward to the BSN program offered in alot of universities. but i have come to alot of questions that wanted to get answer from you guys 1. i know the economy is so bad, are nurses with BSN degrees hard to find jobs? 2. so BSN is equivalent to RN and after i graduate i can just take the RN exam, pass it and then i am an RN? 3. before i was hearing people saying that nurses can get green card from the government. i know there is a backlog now. but how long do i have to wait for it, or is it still possible to get one? because bachelors now wait for 15-20 years, masters wait for 8-9 years, PHD's will be waiting for at least 5 years before they can submit their green card application... 4. i really don't want to end up like i graduate from nursing school, and i can't help anyone, then i go back to my own country... that is just ridiculous... 5. what are the salaries of RN's? i don't trust sites like salary.com gives "theoretical" salaries, lol, it's just too good to be true over that kind of sites... ps: i should have mentioned that i have been in US for 12 years (ya... what a failure i only have ssn now...) and i attended US high school and university and work in a US hospital now... just i am not sure about my future if i want to apply to nurse school and what to do after that... my current employer already agreed to file H1-b visa for me but that is for my current job :/ i kind of want to get to the clinical approach...