Throughout this semester, I used my SMART goals and the individual performance profiles for each ATI assessment to improve my outcomes by looking at how much I changed my answers, looking at how fast I tested, and looking at how well I actually read the question or answers. I was able to work on all of the wrong that I was doing during the assessments by looking at how much I changed my answers, didn’t read the questions, and how fast I answered questions. By the end of the semester and all of the assessments, I was able to find the proper time I needed to read and answer a question, while also making sure not to change my answers after I had used my gut to answer them, and making sure that I was reading the question and the answers properly, which I was mostly able to do by the end of the semester. I still need to work on not changing my answers after thoroughly thinking about the question and assuring myself that I know what I am talking about.
I was able to use the content gaps that were identified through the various ATI assessments to gain content mastery by really focusing on the content that I was not grasping during the assessments and focusing on that during the remediation. I was able to see that as the semester progressed, I was getting stronger in the content that I was not grasping during the assessments. I was able to use the remediation and the content that was in it to strengthen my understanding about the content I did not understand. This helped me connect the dots between different concepts that I was not able to do so before.
During this semester I had to work on what I was feeling during the assessments I was taking. In the beginning, I could feel myself getting frustrated, stressed, and disappointed in myself taking the assessments. I felt like I was not grasping the concepts, finishing in the time I needed to, and overwhelmed by the amount of questions that I was facing. Throughout the semester I was able to work on these problems I was facing by making sure that I was thoroughly thinking about what was going on and what I was thinking. Being able to do this throughout the semester and reflect on what I was feeling made it so I was able to understand what I was feeling and why I was feeling it in the moment. This helped me figure out when I needed a break, when I needed to take a second to breathe, and when I just needed to realize that I will not be able to retain 100% of the information that I have learned in these past 16 months.
Putting all of this information together with the skills I’ve gained with testing and mental awareness of myself, I will be able to use this information to build my skills during my clinical practice. I will be able to recognize when I am not properly reading a situation, when I need to look a little longer at information, when I need to trust my gut, when I need to take a step back, and when I need to practice what I have been working on. All of the skills that I have learned over the semester will make it so I am a little better prepared for the transition into licensure and so that I have the basic skills I will need to adapt to the unknown that will come in a day of nursing.
