Thoughts on ATI: Assessment Technologies Institute

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Has any of your schools subscribed to ATI? Any thoughts? Helpful? Annoying? (My school counts it as a grade) Makes no difference?

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My school did (and does) what yours does - ATI subject tests as finals and must achieve 95% level on comprehensive final in order to graduate.

My thought: It's OK.. not great, but not bad. Kind of expensive, though.

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After each class, we take the comprehensive final...whatever we get is counted as 5% of our grade.

I find it helpful when it comes to studying other resources besides your textbook. After studying your textbook you feel like its just all a blur. ATI sums up the material in a simple matter. Yes, its expensive and hopefully it ll be worth it in the end...

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Ours were 15% of the grade.

I don't know whether it was worth it or not. I did easily pass the NCLEX but I'm pretty sure I would've done just as well even if I had just used Saunders. Regardless, I didn't have a choice and neither do you.

It certainly isn't a bad prep program and you do get tons of test practice by taking the subject-matter and comprehensive tests.

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My daughter got the course separately as her school had not adopted ATI at the time she attended. So far the books and CDs sit in their box. She remarked that she found it not helpful and it was a waste of money as far as she was concerned.

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Specializes in IMCU.

I have the ATI fundamentals book open right now -- the test is this week.

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The fundamentals book is wickedly huge...

Our school never counted the ATI as a part of you grade, it was a pass/fail. But you were to bring your scores to your advisor and make a plan of action on areas of weaknesses.

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My fundamentals ATI test is the week before the final. Taking it before the final is a great idea...it ll myself and my class know where are weak spots are...good luck dolce vita. thanks to everyone else for their thoughts =)

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Our school uses ATI but it doesn't count towards our grade. We have to reach a level 2. If we don't, we have to remediate at home and score a 90% or more.

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The books are very useful, it's a much better condensed with practical info as compared to the main text book.

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The books are useful. I have used them when studying for tests.

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Specializes in L&D/Maternity nursing.

we use ATI. It depends on the professor as to how much they count for. For Med/Surg, it was used as our final and was 25% of our overall grade. Its our final in OB in 3 weeks and counts for 30%. For pedi, its our final and 10% of our grade. For community health/public health, its worth 0% and is strictly for practice. We didnt have to take it for psych, but were given codes to practice on our own. We didnt have an ATI requirement for pharmacology or fundamentals, but have codes for those to practice with on our own.

A couple months before we take the NCLEX (next June) we sit for a comprehensive ATI so that we can gauge where we are at and where we need to focus our studying efforts on.

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