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ASSESSMENT TECHNOLOGIES INSTITUTE (ATI)

ATI Nursing Education (Assessment Technologies Institute®) is a technology-based educational assessment and testing program. The program’s focus is on helping students succeed in the licensure examination (NCLEX) that all graduates need to successfully pass in order to practice nursing after graduation. Today’s nursing students are diverse with different learning styles and needs. ATI Nursing Education’s learning systems are designed to offer a variety of learning methods. ATI information and services are available to students throughout their academic career. The following is a summary of the ATI testing that students are exposed to across the nursing curriculum.

Semester 1

N311 – Foundations of Professional Practice

• Video Case Study
  • Fundamentals
    • ADLs
    • HIPAA
    • Nursing Process
    • Oral Care
  • Adult Medical Surgical
    • Pain Management
• Civility Mentor
  • Civility and Patient Safety in the Clinical Environment
• Nurse’s Touch: The Communicator 2.0
  • Video Interaction: Clients displaying aggressive behavior 
• Nurse Logic
  • Knowledge & Clinical Judgment
  • Nursing Concepts
  • Priority Setting Skills
• Nurse’s Touch: Wellness & Self-care
  • Stress, Causes, Effects and Management
  • Self- Care: Physical Activity
  • Self-Care: Rest and Sleep
• Learning System 3.0 Practice, Final, and Dynamic Quizzing
  • Fundamentals 1
• Achieve
  • Preparing for Clinical Experience
• Skill Modules 3.0
  • Airway Management
  • Mobility
  • Bowel elimination
  • Enteral Tube Feedings
  • Health Care Fraud, Waste, & Abuse Prevention
  • Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act
  • Infection Control
  • Nutrition
  • Ostomy Care
  • Oxygen Therapy
  • Pain Management
  • Personal Hygiene
  • Specimen Collection
  • Urinary Elimination
  • Wound Care
  • Proctored Assessment
  • Fundamentals 

N312 – Basic Health Assessment

• HealthAssess
  • Introduction to health assessment
  • General survey
  • Health history
  • Skin
  • Head, neck and neurological
  • Respiratory
  • Cardiovascular
  • Abdomen
  • Musculoskeletal and neurological
  • Head-to-toe
  • Breast and lymphatics
  • Rectum and genitourinary
  • Virtual Practice: Shirley Williamson
  • Virtual Practice: David Rodriguez
  • Virtual Practice: Harold Stevens
  • Virtual Practice: Diane Radford
  • Virtual Practice: Timothy Lee (head-to-toe)
• Skills Modules 3.0
  • Comprehensive Physical Assessment of an Adult
• Skills Modules 3.0
  • Vital Signs
• Practice exam: 
  • Anatomy & Physiology
• ATI Student Orientation
  • Steps to Success
• Other
  • Learning Strategies (Book)
• Test Proctored
  • Anatomy & Physiology

N313 – Basic Concepts of Pathophysiology

No examination is administered  

N314 – Introduction to Professional Practice

• Video Case Studies
  • Client Advocacy
  • Client Rights
• Additional Assessments
  • Self-Assessment Inventory
• Civility Mentor
  • Foundations of Professionalism and Civility
  • Professionalism and Civility Academic Environment
  • Professionalism and Civility in Nursing Practice
• Nurse Logic
  • Testing and Remediation
• Learning System 3.0: Practice, Final, and Dynamic Quizzing
  • Communication
  • Communication Final
• Nurse’s Touch: Becoming a Professional Nurse
  • Profession and Professional Identity
  • Professional Nursing Practice
  • Professional Behaviors in Nursing
  • Socialization into Professional Nursing
• Nurse’s Touch: Professional Communication (Proctored 10%) 
  • Types of Communication
  • Therapeutic Communication
  • Factors that Affect Communication with Individuals and Groups
• Achieve
  • Test-Taking Skills
  • Study Skills
  • Classroom Skills
  • Challenges for ESL Students
• Additional Assessments: 
  • Critical Thinking Entrance

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Semester 2

N321 – Adult Health I

• Video Case Studies
  • Pharmacology
    • Medication Interactions 
    • Mixing Insulins
    • Pharmacology Across the Lifespan
    • Safe Dosage
  • Adult Medical Surgical
    • Client Education
    • Hand-Off Reports
    • Oxygenation
    • Urinary Tract Infections
    • Wound Evisceration
    • Adverse Reactions to Medications
    • Infection Control
    • Look/Sound-Alike Medications
    • Medication Administration
• Nurse’s Touch: The Communicator 2.0 
  • Virtual Interaction: Clients and their nutritional needs 
  • Video Interaction: Family in Stressful Situation
  • Technique Identifier: The Client Experiencing Aphasia
  • Technique Identifier: Client Experiencing Thrombosis
  • Technique Identifier: Client Undergoing Surgery
  • Technique Identifier: Client Discharge Planning
• Real Life RN Medical Surgical
  • COPD
  • Urinary Tract Infection (Sepsis from a Urinary Source)
• Target Med Surg
  • Endocrine
  • Fluid, Electrolyte & Acid-Base
  • Gastrointestinal
  • Perioperative
• Content Mastery Series Assessments Practice Test
  • Fundamentals
  • Nutrition
• Learning System 3.0: Practice, Final, and Dynamic Quizzing
  • Fundamentals 2
  • MS: Dermatological
  • MS: Endocrine
  • MS: Gastrointestinal
  • MS: Musculoskeletal
  • MS: Neurosensory 
  • MS: Fundamentals Final
• Content Mastery Series Assessments Proctored Test (10%):
  • Dosage Calculation (1%)
  • Fundamentals (9%)
• Skills Modules 3.0
  • Diabetes Mellitus Management
  • IV Therapy and Peripheral Access
  • Concepts of Medication Administration
  • Oral and Topical Medications Administration
  • Injectable Medication Administration
  • Intravenous Medication Administration
  • Surgical Asepsis
• Dosage Calculations and Safe Medication Administration
  • Injectable Medications
  • Medication Administration
  • Oral Medications
  • Powdered Medications
  • Parenteral (IV) Medications
  • Safe Dosage
• Nurse’s Touch: Professional Communication
  • Client Education
• Dosage Calculation: Case Studies
  • Diabetes
• Nurse’s Touch: Informatics & Technology
  • Literacy Skills and Consumer Educational Needs

N322 – Basic Concepts of Pharmacology

• Pharmacology Made Easy
  • Introduction to Pharmacology
  • The Neurologic System Part 1
  • The Neurologic System Part 2
  • The Musculoskeletal System
  • The Respiratory System
  • The Cardiovascular System
  • The Hematologic System
  • The Gastrointestinal System
  • The Reproductive & Genitourinary System
  • The Endocrine System
  • The Immune System
  • Pain and Inflammation
  • Infection
• Video Case Studies
  • Poly-pharmacy
• Learning System 3.0: Practice, Final, and Dynamic Quizzing
  • Pharmacology
  • Pharmacology Final
• Content Mastery Series Assessments: Practice Tests
  • Pharmacology
• Content Mastery Series Assessments: Proctored Test
  • Pharmacology

N323 – Mental and Behavioral Health

• Dosage Calculation: Case Studies
  • Bipolar
• Learning System 3.0: Practice, Final, and Dynamic Quizzing
  • Mental Health 1
  • Mental Health 2
  • Mental Health Final
• Real Life RN Mental Health
  • Alcohol Use Disorder
  • Anxiety Disorder
  • Bipolar
  • Schizophrenia
• Nurse’s Touch: The Communicator 2.0 
  • Virtual Interaction: Adolescent clients and performance enhancement substances
  • Virtual Interaction: Adolescent clients at risk for suicide 
  • Virtual Interaction: Adult clients at risk for medication misuse and suicide 
  • Virtual Interaction: Adult clients misusing alcohol
• Video Case Studies
  • Anxiety
  • Bipolar Disorder
  • Depression
  • Neurocognitive Disorders
  • Therapeutic Communication
• Content Mastery Series Assessments: Proctored Test
  • Mental Health
  • Dosage Calculation
    • Mental Health
• Content Mastery Series Assessments: Practice Test
  • Mental Health

N324 – Older Adult Health

• Dosage Calculation: Case Studies
  • Advanced Alzheimer’s Disease
• Learning System 3.0: Practice, Final, and Dynamic Quizzing
  • Gerontology
  • Gerontology Final
• Nurse’s Touch: The Communicator 2.0
  • Video Interaction: Aging Client
  • Video Interaction: Client Comfort and End of Life Care
• Video Case Studies
  • Palliative and Hospice Care

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Semester 3

N431 – Adult Health II

• Learning System 3.0: Practice, Final, and Dynamic Quizzing
  • MS: Cardio & Hematology
  • MS: Immune & Infectious
  • MS: Oncology
  • MS: Renal & Urinary
  • MS: Respiratory
  • Medical Surgical Final
• Real Life RN Medical Surgical
  • Myocardial Infarction Complications
  • GI Bleed
  • Kidney Disease
• Dosage Calculation: Case Studies
  • Leukopenia
  • Acute MI
  • AIDS
• Skill Modules 3.0
  • Blood Administration
  • Central Venous Access Devices
  • Nasogastric Tube
• Targeted Med Surg
  • Cardiovascular
  • Immune
  • Neurosensory and Musculoskeletal
  • Renal and Urinary
  • Respiratory
• Video Case Studies 
  • Acid Base Imbalances
  • Blood Administration
  • Fluid Volume
  • Heart Failure
  • Enteral Nutrition
  • Total Parenteral Nutrition
• Content Mastery Series Assessments: Practice Test
  • Adult Medical Surgical
• Content Mastery Series Assessments: Proctored Test
  • Adult Medical Surgical (9%)
  • Dosage Calculation (1%)
    • Medical Surgical

N432 – Maternal-Newborn Care

• Video Case Studies
  • Apgar Scoring
  • Breastfeeding
  • Complications of Pregnancy
  • Fundal Assessment
• Real Life RN Maternal Newborn
  • Gestational Diabetes
  • Postpartum Hemorrhage
  • Preeclampsia
  • Teaching Prenatal and Newborn Care
  • Pre-Term Labor
• Learning System 3.0: Practice, Final, and Dynamic Quizzing:
  • Maternal Newborn 1
  • Maternal Newborn 2
  • Maternal Newborn Final
• Skill Modules 3.0
  • Maternal-Newborn Care
• Dose Calculations: Case Studies
  • Preeclampsia
• Content Mastery Series Assessments: Practice Test:
  • Maternal Newborn
• Content Mastery Series Assessments: Proctored Test:
  • Dosage Calculation
  • Maternal Newborn

N433 – Infant, Child, and Adolescent Health

• Dosage Calculation and Safe Medication Administration
  • Dosages by Weight
  • Pediatric Medications
• Dosage Calculation: Case Studies
  • Pediatric Asthma
  • Pediatric Ear Infection/Dehydration
• Skills Modules 3.0: 
  • Comprehensive Physical Assessment of a Child
• Learning System 3.0: Practice, Final, and Dynamic Quizzing
  • Nursing Care of Children 1
  • Nursing Care of Children 2
  • Nursing Care of Children Final
• Real Life RN Nursing Care of Children
  • CF Community care
  • CF Inpatient care
  • Gastroenteritis and Dehydration
  • Type 1 Diabetes
  • Well Child
• Nurse’s Touch: The Communicator 2.0
  • Technique Identifier: Client living with Asthma
  • Video Interaction: Role as interprofessional team member
• Video Case Studies
  • Growth and Development
  • Metered-Dose Inhalers
  • Pediatric Asthma
  • Type 1 Diabetes Mellitus
  • Pediatric Dehydration
• Content Mastery Series Assessments: Practice Test
  • Nursing Care of Children
• Content Mastery Series Assessments: Proctored Test
  • Dosage Calculation
    • Nursing Care of Children
  • Nursing Care of Children

N434 – Evidence-Based Practice

• Nurse’s Touch: Nursing Informatics and Technology
  • Information Management Systems 
• Video Case Studies
  • Informatics and Nursing

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Semester 4

N441 – Adult Health III

• Skills Modules 3.0
  • Closed-Chest Drainage
• Dosage Calculation
  • Critical Care 
• Learning System 3.0: Practice, Final, and Dynamic Quizzing
  • Comprehensive Final
• Nurse Logic: Advanced Student Tests
  • Knowledge and Clinical Judgment
  • Nursing Concepts
  • Priority Setting Frameworks
  • Testing and Remediation
• Video Case Studies
  • Titrating Continuous IV Medications
• Content Mastery Series Assessments: Practice Test
  • Comprehensive Practice
• Content Mastery Series Assessments: Proctored Test
  • Dosage Calculation
    • Critical Care
  • Nutrition
  • Medical Surgical Comprehensive 
• Proctored Test:
  • Critical Thinking Exit

N442 – Population and Global Health

• Nurse’s Touch: Informatics and Technology
  • Informatics
  • Virtual Social Networks
  • Wellness & Self-Care
    • Self-Care: Eating Healthy & Maintaining a Healthy Weight
    • Wellness, Health Promotion, & Disease Prevention
• Learning System 3.0: Practice, Final, and Dynamic Quizzing
  • Community Health
  • Community Health Final
• Video Case Studies
  • Level of Prevention
  • Survival Potential
  • Cultural Diversity
• Content Mastery Series Assessments Practice Test
  • Community Health
• Content Mastery Series Assessments Proctored Test
  • Community Health

N443 – Leadership and Management

• Sigma Theta Tau Nurse Manager Certificate Program
  • Pre-test
  • Introduction to Administrative, Management, & Organizational Theories
  • Using Evidence to Guide Decision Making & Management Practices
  • Using Evidence to Guide Strategic Planning
  • The Art of Leading
  • Human Resources: Issues & Strategies
  • Project Management
  • Managing the Team
  • Patient Satisfaction
  • Facilitating Staff Development
  • Patient Safety in the Health Care Workplace
  • Creating Budgets and Business Plans
  • Safety for the Health Care Worker
  • Nursing Liability 
  • Legal Documentation and Defenses
  • Ethical Principles for Nurse Managers
  • Life Balance for Nurse Manager
  • Post-Test
• Nurse’s Touch: Professional Communication
  • Organizational Communication
• Learning System 3.0: Practice, Final, and Dynamic Quizzing
  • Leadership
  • Leadership Final
• Nurse’s Touch: The Leader
  • Case 1: Assignment-Delegation
  • Case 2: Client Injury/ Incident Report
  • Case 3: Conflict Management
  • Case 4: QI
  • Case 5: Inter-professional Clinical Pathway
• Video Case Studies
  • Priority Setting
  • Teamwork and Collaboration
• Content Mastery Series Assessment Practice Test
  • 2019 Leadership A& B
• Content Mastery Series Assessment Proctored Test
  • Leadership

N444 – Concept Synthesis

• Capstone
• The NCLEX® Experience RN
  • NCLEX RN Overview Video
  • Next Generation NCSBN Item Type Video
  • Next Generation NCSBN Sample Item Types
• VATI