<![CDATA[Career College Lounge: Catherine Abarno]]> http://www.careeredlounge.com/pg/profile/abacat0827 https://www.careeredlounge.com/pg/profile/abacat0827 Wed, 03 Aug 2011 12:10:41 -0400 https://www.careeredlounge.com/pg/profile/abacat0827 <![CDATA[Catherine Abarno]]> I am a RN BSN and am currently an adjunct instructor in the Medical Assistant program at Brown College in Brooklyn Center, MN.  I was awarded in October the very first excellence in teaching award which was voted on by my peers and students.  I have been teaching at Brown for going on 2 years next May and taught a year before that in Yuma, AZ in the certified nursing assistant program.

  I began my medical career back in 1978 as a CMA, then spent the next 11 years as a CNA before moving on to my LPN program in 1990-91.  After my divorce in 1992, I went back to school for my RN and graduated in 1994 and received my BSN in 1996 from Moorhead State University in MN.  Currently I am enrolled in Walden University for my masters in Mental Health Counseling.  I have a 4.0 GPA and am in my 3rd quarter.  I was recently invited to be part of Chi Sigma Iota, an international honor society for counseling.

I have two grown adult sons, with my youngest being married and my oldest and his girlfriend having my 4 year old grandson.  I have a Corgi-Collie mix dog, Sara Janey, who just turned 7 on Thanksgiving and I live in Shoreview, MN after moving back to MN from AZ in 2010.  I enjoy live theatre as an actor & director, counted cross stitch, the ocean, snow (not driving in it), walking, and reading.  I have recently began my 1st Christian based romance novel.

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