Student Nurses vs. ATI

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*Please know this is meant as a witty post. I do understand the benefits of ATI and how much it will help me when it comes to the boards. Doesn't mean I have to like it ;)

Each year thousands of student nurses bravely don their armor (body flattering scrubs) and prepare to do battle with an enemy so smart, so vicious, and so sneaky that many of us do not even realize It has struck a blow until we are staring at the screen realizing that we will be redoing yet another real life senario/pharmocology test/module for the millionth. There wasn't even time to wield our mighty stethescopes against this evil foe.

This monster's name is ATI and it is a living, breathing slayer of student nurses everywhere. It chews us up and spits us out. Still ATI will not be done with us. Then while we are still shell shocked (and feeling incredibly stupid) it whips out a "Choose all that apply" question and stregnthens itself by feeding off of our tears of frustration when we miss a correct answer by one checkmark.

No matter how hard we student nurses try ATI remains five steps ahead of us. Our mighty stethescopes and fearsome penlights are no match for its rationales on "While that is an important priority, it is not the immediate priority" ATI laughs when the student nurses fall, one by one, banging our heads off of what ever hard surface available to us.

Once in a great while there will come a part of ATI that has it's gaurd down and the brave student nurse has the opportunity to feel confident in the outcome of the battle. We rush in and finally select all that apply and figure out the immediate priority!!! But then ATI begins to belly laugh, bats us around like toys, and gives us a case study....

The battle is never ending and the student nurses never give up the good fight. ATI never backs down. Only after we have developed writers cramp, PTSD, eye strain, and a phobia of submit buttons does ATI call off the slaughter and say "I am growing bored with torturing you. Now you may think like a nurse."

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