I've been lurking here a while but this is my first post. I dont know what ANA does in terms of ARNP education recommendation but I am about to cringe and scream that my first year was wasted on nursing theorist..their theory ...papers & presentations on nightingale, watson, duncan ???? What the heck...i did that already in my BSN. Another class was on community health and policy planning....we did no policy...just a community health assessment project .....Now, this is so not ADVANCE nursing because I did community health project in my BSN. What a waste of my time and money in terms of advancing, yeah right???