About me

I originate from Niagara Falls, NY of parents from Poland and Germany. I attended parochial schools from K thru university. Worked mainly in the OR after 1 year in the NICU. After working in NC at UNC @ Chapel Hill for 5 years, I received employment working for the Royal Ministry of Health in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia at the King Faisal Specialist Hospital & Research Center in Riyadh, KSA. There I trained to be a cardiopulmonary perfusionist as well as a first assistant in pediatric cardiac surgery. Returning home after 5 years overseas I became CRNFA certified and started my own business contracting to hospitals in the Dallas/Ft. Worth area as a cardiac surgery first assistant. Was placed to a rural hospital in Lufkin, TX where I attended Texas Woman's University in Houston, TX and received my MSN in Adult Geriatric Acute Care Nurse Practitioner. During my career I volunteered in Palestine (Gaza & West Bank) and completed 12 Plastic/Reconstructive/Burn surgery missions with Operation Smile and PCRF (Palestine Children's Relief Fund) where I specialized in the care of children with cleft lip & palate, burns and hypospadias repair and used my Arabic language skills to navigate the culture there. Recently I retired from cardiac surgery where the cardiac surgeon and I specialized in repair of Type A dissections of the aorta at Banner Thunderbird and robotic lung resections at Abrazo and HonorHealth hospitals. I was always interested in teaching nursing but never pursued it until I saw adds for employment at Arizona College of Nursing in Tempe, AZ. Currently I am working on opening a Vein Clinic in northern Scottsdale/Cave Creek area with 3 investors, perform outgoing physicals for Veterans leaving the military or updating their disability claims. I live in Fountain Hills with my wife, a psychiatric NP, and 3 rescued dogs.

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David Kutlina, AGACNP-BC

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Creating Effective Assessments | Origin: ED103

Testing of knowledge and performance uses a variety of testing methods. There are subjective testing methods and objective testing methods, each focusing on different forms of knowledge and performance for particular career paths and disciplines.

David Kutlina, AGACNP-BC

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Student Learning Assessment | Origin: ED103

Interesting to learn about Bloom's Taxonomy and the application of CATs.

David Kutlina, AGACNP-BC

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Questioning as a Teaching Technique | Origin: ED103

What I have learned from this module is that there are many kinds of questions, many ways to answer, and many ways to apply questions and answers to increase learning for the student. Harvard School of Business is an effective example to posit these different uses of questions and answers. We as instructors must take creative use of this knowledge not only for the benefit of the student but also as a venue to increase our understanding of how to manipulate our teaching environment for more effective and safe teaching methods that lead to better student comprehension of the material… >>>

David Kutlina, AGACNP-BC

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Teaching to Learning Styles | Origin: ED103

Not all students learn in the same manner. Developing a curriculum that addresses the needs of all learning styles will require the "out of the box" creative method to address the needs of all learning styles. This can be achieved by learning all the styles and incorporating them into the curriculum. Testing students for particular learning styles is just one way to address this problem.

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