ATI Med/Surg (Chronic Care)

devhrt12 · Jan 14, 2015

There's nclex mastery an app that a lot of nursing students like to use.

SunnyTrailRunner · Jan 15, 2015

Have you been studying the ATI modules? Most modules have extra practice questions and scenarios you can go through. If you click around, there should also be practice finals somewhere. Does your school give you the ATI books, too? If so, start using those questions. Basically, answer as many questions written by ATI as possible. From what I've gathered, there's 3 different "hospitals" in school. There's the NCLEX hospital, ATI hospital, and then the real world hospital where you can't use 15+ wash clothes to bath a pt with a bathe blanket, half an hour for a foley, etc. When studying for ATI, you need to focus on the ATI hospital.

trudeyRN · Jan 15, 2015

Have you been studying the ATI modules? Most modules have extra practice questions and scenarios you can go through. If you click around, there should also be practice finals somewhere. Does your school give you the ATI books, too? If so, start using those questions. Basically, answer as many questions written by ATI as possible. From what I've gathered, there's 3 different "hospitals" in school. There's the NCLEX hospital, ATI hospital, and then the real world hospital where you can't use 15+ wash clothes to bath a pt with a bathe blanket, half an hour for a foley, etc. When studying for ATI, you need to focus on the ATI hospital.

You make me smile: ATI hospital, NCLEX hospital and real world hospital sounds like we are living in three parallel universes. Sometimes when I take those tests, I think we are :blackeye:

The books are a good suggestion. In the beginning I was not using them much because there was so much required reading and ATI is suggested rather than required. They are good though, like Cliff notes for ideal world (or ATI world) nursing.

tsm007 · Jan 15, 2015

My best advice is to study the ATI book more heavily than your textbook. Also this book helped me a lot to study for the ATI Med/Surg exam Med-Surg Success: A Q&A Review Applying Critical Thinking to Test Taking (Davis's Q&a Series): 9780803625044: Medicine & Health Science Books @ Amazon.com which is the exam WGU uses for Chronic Care. Do as many questions out of that book as you can. Other tips - work on your test taking skills.

Also, a lot of ATI tests are learning how to read the questions. Be very careful reading the questions. If you don't know the answer and the question asks what you would do FIRST, look at which answer is an assessment and pick that one. Always assess before intervening unless you were given assessment data. I used this strategy often. Try really hard not to read into the question. There are a lot of questions where they will throw extra info in there and you can start reading into the question. For me a lot of times I will have the right answer and then I'll think no, wait what if... don't do that! Go with what you think and don't add any what if's to your thinking, you can lead yourself right into a wrong answer. Final tip do as many practice questions as you can. The more you get used to reading questions the better you'll get at it.