School requiring ATI as part of course

Nursing Students NCLEX

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My school is going to start requiring ATI NCLEX prep course as part of the nursing curriculum - as if we didn 't have enough to do right now. I'm going into my last semester so I'm not too upset about it but when we were informed that we had to foot the $300 too that kinda ticked me off. If I'm going to take a prep course that I have to pay for, I want to be able to choose from what's out there.

Any thoughts?

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Specializes in Nursing Assistant.

my school does ati as well ...

we have to take an ati exam in each of our 4 semesters. my pharm final was also ati.

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did you feel it was helpful? From what I understand we have to take the tests at certain points but they do not reflect on our grade.

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Specializes in Nursing Assistant.

No grade?! Yuck!

I found ATI to be beneficial for this first semester, I used it not only for prep for the ATI test we had to take, but for supplement to what we were learning. I liked it because for example, there may have been about 50 pages to read out of the regular text book on oxygen, but ATI broke all of that info down and highlighted what was important.

I am on Facebook and have 'liked' the ATI page. I see a lot of positive feedback about using ATI and how it has helped many pass NCLEX.

Hope this helps!

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Specializes in Family Practice, Emergency Nursing.

We were required to take ATI throughout the entirety of my nursing program. The ATI exams also accounted for 10% of our grade. If we didn't meet the programs standards, we were required to remediate. I liked taking the exams because I felt like it was somewhat preparing me for the computerized questions that I was eventually going to be exposed to with the NCLEX-RN. We also received books and had online access to the books, photos, videos, and tests.

ATI also had an NCLEX-RN predictor. We took this twice. The first time we took it, it determined if we needed to take a Cognitive Reasoning Course (similar to Kaplan or Saunders) our school taught that helped with review for NLCEX and testing techniques. There was a cost that went along with the class, but I felt that I benefited from the course. After the Cognitive Reasoning Course we took the ATI NCLEX-RN predictor. It was awesome to see the improvement in my scores.

Yeah, it's a total bummer that it's out of your control and your program is requiring it, but go into it with an open mindset. I felt the same way you're feeling now, but I took a lot more from ATI and I feel much more prepared. Just graduated this past weekend so you're almost there!!!

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Thanks for the input. I checked out their web page and like what I see so far. I'm just going to use it as another tool. Thanks again!

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