What is ATI?

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Hello all. I have been reading numerous posts and threads on this website. It's the only thing I can do to contain my excitement since I don't start my nursing program until april. On many posts I have read about people using ATI to study. What is this? Is is something your school has to sign you up for, or is it something I could purchase and use on my own?

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My school used it and it is provided to us once we pay school tuition. It is an interactive site that shows modules and allows us to practice skills.

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Specializes in L&D, infusion, urology.

Your program may or may not use it. ATI is the company that administers the TEAS exam, and they have books and tests and other learning resources to prep for the NCLEX. From what I understand, most programs use this or one of the competitors.

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ATI (AssessmentTechnologies Institute) is a a set of materials like online modules and books, that most colleges use for their nursing students. At my college, all ATI materials are given to us as part of our nursing program at no additional cost (it's included as part of our tuition). Every college is different in how they want to use the ATI materials. For example, in my nursing program there is an ATI online exam that is given in every nursing course and clinical. The ATI exams I find to be most difficult...especially Pharmacology (not trying to scare you:geek:)

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ATI = the scourge of all nursing students. It's supposed to measure students' likelihood of passing specific content areas on NCLEX using tests for each rotation, and there is an "RN Comprehensive Predictor" that you take at the end of the program (if your school uses ATI) that measures your performance to assign a percent to your likelihood of passing NCLEX. We paid about $450, if I recall, for a big box of books and access to the website that has tutorials, practice tests, and exams. We have to take one or two "unsecured" ATI exams per rotation, and a proctored "secured" exam as well. You pass with a level 1, 2 or 3. My program assigns a 2-point value if you pass the secured with a level 2 or better (but if you don't take the exam you fail). The good thing about it is that it helps identify your areas of weakness so you know what you need to work on.

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That sounds better than my school

It's 700 bucks, they told us a week in advance we needed it and I didn't get anything but an access code to log on to the website lol

I would have appreciated a book or something haha

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Specializes in Critical Care; Recovery.

Congrats on getting accepted into nursing school. I didn't care for ati too much. We got a lot of books (never read them, but I'm sure they would have been helpful for the NCLEX), and we had to take ATI tests each semester in nursing school. We were required to pass those tests. In retrospect, I do recommend reading Ati and other NCLEX review books throughout your nursing program because they are high yield without a lot of the fillers that your thick textbooks contain.

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ATI is the devil! Ok only sometimes. I actually have found some of the practice for pharmacology helpful. It isn't always specifically what I need but provides some review. I remember the tutorials from last year being painful to watch and when answering some of the questions at the end I felt like they had nothing to do with the material covered. I haven't experienced that this year though so we will see. There has not been a huge emphasis on it yet. The communication interactions can be a little entertaining to watch.

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Thank you everyone for the comments and answering my question :)

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My school used it and it is provided to us once we pay school tuition. It is an interactive site that shows modules and allows us to practice skills.
wow that's awesome... I had to pay 500.00 dollars lol
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