Teaching Experience

Nursing Instructor, College of Nursing, PAAET, Kuwait
September 2005 - Present (full time)
February 2002 - June 2004 (part time)
Provided Psychiatric/Mental Health Nursing theory and clinical to 4th level ADN students from a variety of Middle East and North African countries. Also taught Growth and Development to associate students. Provided courses on The Psychology of Medical Care and Client Education to Kuwaiti BSN nursing students. Served on academic scholarship and exam review committees; provided student advising and counseling; participated in research; presented lectures and facilitation in community, hospitals, clinics, and conferences.

Senior Lecturer, Kuwait University
August 2001 - June 2004 
Provided nursing instruction to Kuwaiti BSN students. Courses taught included Psychiatric Nursing theory and clinical; Community Health Nursing theory and clinical; Nutrition; Physical Assessment theory and practice; Nursing issues and Trends; Advanced Medical-Surgical clinical. Responsibilities included teaching, student advising, counseling, English tutoring, helping with nursing laboratory, and coordinating extracurricular student activities. Committee membership included: Safety and Security Committee, Emergency Committee, Graduate Faculty Association, and Kuwait Nursing Association. Presented lectures in the community, hospitals, and conferences. 

Psychiatric Nursing Instructor, University of Louisville, Kentucky
Fall 1999 - Spring 2000 
Provided Psychiatric Nursing theory and clinical to evening BSN nursing students. Participated in student counseling, and regular faculty departmental meetings.

Education Coordinator, Senior Citizen's East Louisville, Kentucky
Fall 1999 - Summer 2001 
Responsible for designing and administrating adult learning programs, hiring and evaluating educators, managing budget, and coordinating day-long Retirement Showcase Luncheon and workshops for senior citizens in the Louisville community. Provided lectures on topics including: health, spirituality, Middle East culture.

Research Assistant, University of Missouri, Columbia
August 1998 - May 1999 
Provided organizational design, follow-up, and clinical counseling interventions to high stress pregnant women 24 hours per day through a pioneering pager program entitled Baby Beep.

Graduate Teaching Assistant, University of Missouri, Columbia
August 1995 - May 1996 
Assisted the lead professor with teaching Nursing Law and Ethics course. This included preparing and offering lectures; providing English tutoring to foreign students; providing ongoing student advising; and making all the papers for the writing intensive courses.

Nursing Instructor/Clinical Coordinator/Interim Associate Dean, Spencerian College, Louisville, Kentucky
June 1996 - June 1998 (full time)
May 1999 - June 2001 (part time)
Taught courses on Mental Health theory and clinical; Geriatric theory and clinical; and Foundations clinical. Assisted Director of Nursing as needed. Coordinated and supervised 15 nursing clinical sites. Acted as Interim Associate Dean in the night program as needed. Coordinated graduating seniors' commencement ceremonies. Established and supervised successful recycling program throughout the college (paper, cardboard, glass, aluminum) and contributed articles to school newsletter on the environment and importance of recycling.

Psychiatric Nursing Instructor,
North Central Missouri College, Missouri
Winter 1994 
Taught Psychiatric Nursing theory and clinical. Assisted the Director of Nursing as needed. Developed pioneering program entitled Urban Plunge designed to expose rural nursing students to urban challenges.

Psychiatric Nursing Staff Development Educator
Menorah Medical Center, Missouri
October 1983 - July 1984 
Offered hospital lectures, ongoing seminars and community consultations on wholeness, safety and self-esteem. Developed a piloted a Health and Wellness Program for patients, families, and the community.  

Professional Research Experience

Baby Beep Pilot Study, University of Missouri, Columbia - worked closely with principle investigator in developing an emergency, 24-hour paging system for high stress pregnant women in a rural community; provided basic nursing, teaching, referrals, and aggressive stress management through telephone contact and home visits; maintained careful documentation and records of all interactions for research data; assisted with planning for the comprehensive stress management pager program on smoking cessation for pregnant women (1998-1999)

Asthma Interview and Data Collection, University of Missouri, Columbia - provided extensive data on four asthma subjects. Entered all data into Excel and SPSS computer programs and maintained organized files on each subject (1998-1999)

Nursing Intervention and Data Collection, Masters and Johnson's Sexual Trauma Unit, Missouri - assisted in maintaining confidential, detailed files on all inpatient psychiatric patients being treated for sexual and/or ritual abuse. Compiled extensive, detailed accounts of stressors, crises, and effectiveness of nursing interventions pertaining to these patients (1991-1992)

Controlled Experimental Research, Langley Porter Neuropsychiatric Hospital, California - assisted in strict research protocol administering medication and placebos to voluntary research subjects on the Inpatient, Treatment, and Research Unit. Ongoing studies over many years included those assessing effectiveness and adversity of anti-psychotic medications Haloperidol and Chlorpromazine. Additional studies included government research with nursing staff administering THC (marijuana) capsules and/or placebos, recording the subjective and objective data related to such volunteers, and assuring the confidentiality, safety, and basic needs of all those involved (1978-1981)

Strategies for Strengthening Nursing Student Retention - literature review and ongoing observation to identify students at greatest risk for dropping out of nursing school; providing stress management and other strategic interventions to assist them with strengthening their ability to succeed; evaluating the effectiveness of those interventions.

Terrorism: A Community Mental Health Issue - literature review and informal date collection on the psychological threat to well-being that living in today's modern world poses to humanity; particular literature has been collected on studies pertaining to effects upon children; preliminary, informal subjective write-ups have been gathered as part of a confidential, nursing student assignment on the personal impact and post traumatic stress disorder symptoms resulting to self and family from the Iraqi Invasion.

Telling Our Nursing Success Stories - literature review on the power story to enhance our personal and collective image of nursing; preliminary qualitative research begun on collecting stories from nurses in Kuwait which demonstrate the vital role that nurses play in the lives of patients. It is hoped that these stories can be shared through publication and conference presentation as a way of improving the image of nursing in Kuwait and in the world.

Nursing Clinical Experience

Registered Nurse, Home Health Agency, Missouri
August 1995 - June 1996 
Provided basic nursing care for patients in rural home settings. Services included thorough home-health nursing assessment, documentation, counseling for patients and family, medication education and management, monitoring diabetes and hypertension, dressing changes, safety instruction, and nutritional counseling.

Coordinator Geriatric Services,
North Central Missouri Mental Health, Missouri
March - December 1994 
Designed, coordinated and supervised geriatric psychiatric partial hospitalization services in nursing homes. Developed policy and procedure manual, all administrative forms, guidance and supervision for multidisciplinary staff for state accreditation. Also, participated in community day program for chronically mentally ill patients in the rural setting.

Area Supervisor,
Midland Psychiatric Associates, Kansas/Missouri
June 1993 - January 1994 
Supervised four geriatric psychiatric partial hospitalization programs in nursing homes. Provided necessary resources, administrative documents, and supervision to multidisciplinary staff.

Program Director,
Midland Psychiatric Associates, Missouri
December 1992 - June 1993 
Managed the geriatric psychiatric partial hospitalization program at New Haven Nursing Home. Created and developed all multidisciplinary staff program content, offered educational classes each day on health, communication, relationships, medication compliance, complementary treatment modalities, and stress management. Facilitated individual, group, and family therapy with patients and members of the community.

Registered Psychiatric Nurse,
Golden Valley Memorial Hospital, Missouri
June - December 1992
Evening charge nurse on Masters and Johnson's pioneering Sexual Trauma Unit. Worked with patients with severe sexual and ritual abuse histories. Many of these patients were an immediate danger to themselves and others. Provided safety and grounding techniques to those with post-traumatic stress disorder, dissociative identity disorder, and other related disorders. Responsibilities included team leading, supervising staff, providing nursing care, leading individual and group therapy sessions, taking charge during all emergencies.

Clinical Nurse III,
Langley Porter Neuropsychiatric Institute, California
June 1978 - June 1981
Registered nurse on world-renowned Inpatient, Treatment, and Research Ward. Provided nursing care based on Orem's Self Care Model. Implemented extensive nursing care plans and patient education to a variety of psychiatric patients - teens, adults, and geriatrics. In addition, was active as team leader, group therapist, and researcher.

Clinical Nurse:          9 Years 
Nursing Educator:    15 Years

Total Number of
Years in Nursing:     24 Years

Spirituality Publications

Browning, Catherine. Blazing Radiance DVD (recorded from a talk at the Earth Spirit Rising Conference on the subject of the Middle East), Ohio, 2005

Browning, Catherine. Blazing Radiance. (spiritual reflections on the Middle East) Al-Assyria Printing, Kuwait, 2004

Browning, Catherine. Earth as Teacher. Branches. May/June, 2004

Browning, Catherine. Flamingos in the Mudflats (poem about Kuwait). National Catholic Reporter, Easter Issue, 2002 

Browning, Catherine. Something Great Our of Nothing. The Exozoic Reader, 2:1, Fall 2001 

Browning, Catherine. Earth's Gethsemane, Earthlight Magazine, 7:4, Spring 2001

Browning, Catherine. Polishing the Heart. (article about Kuwait). Original Blessing, May 2000

___. Let's Get Real. Original Blessing, Dec 1998/Jan 2000

___. Beyond Heroism. Original Blessing, 2:2, Jan/Feb 1999

___. Come to the Watering Hole. Original Blessing, 1:6 Sept/Oct 1998

___. Stay With It. Original Blessing, 1:5, Jul/Aug 1998

___. Ambassadors for Earth. Original Blessing, 1:4, May/Jun 1998

___. Comparisons are Odious, Original Blessing, 1:3, Mar/Apr 1998

___. It Takes A Galaxy. Original Blessing, 1:2 Jan/Feb 1998

Browning, Catherine. As the Deer Longs, Praying Magazine, June 1999.

___. "Prayer and Common Sense (Book Review)." Praying Magazine, Nov/Dec 1995

___. "The Relentless Hunger; The Heart's Search For Love (Book Review)," Praying Magazine, Nov/Dec 1994

___. "Responses to 101 Questions About Feminism (Book Review)," Praying Magazine, Nov/Dec 1994

___. "Enduring Grace: Living Portraits of Seven Women Mystics (Book Review)." Praying Magazine, May/Jun 1994

Browning, Catherine and Mark Steiner, Calling All Angels, Illuminations 2:1, May/Jun 1997. 

___. Cosmic Christening. Illuminations, 1:5 Nov/Dec 1996

___. My Universe, My Self. Illuminations, 1:4 Sept/Oct 1996

Browning, Catherine, "Original Blessing" (Poem), Creation Spirituality Magazine 9:4/5 Summer/Fall 1993. 

Browning, Catherine, Hawaii's Volcano: Fiery Eruptions from Pele. Creation 6:6 Nov/Dec 1990. 

___. Editorial: Women's Spirituality. Creation 6:6 Nov/Dec 1990

___. Sustaining the Vision of Earth Day. Creation 6:2 Mar/Apr 1990

___. Editorial: Earth Day. Creation 6:2 Mar/Apr 1990

___. Trusting the Prophetic Call: Interview with Thea Bowman. Creation 5:4, Nov/Dec 1989

___. Mysterium Tremendum (about Egypt). Creation 5:4 Nov/Dec 1989

Browning, Catherine and Jerold Dana LaFever, Uniteen Leader's Resource Manual: A Guide to Working with Junior High Students in a Religious Education Setting. Association of Churches, Missouri 1986. 

Warshaw (Browning), Catherine. "Polynesian Postcard" and "Tom Robbins." Natives: A Woman's Anthology of Poems, 1982.

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