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<\/a>CELEBRATING SUCCESS:<\/strong>\u00a0UToledo recognizes the Class of 2021 with a series of stories featuring students receiving their degrees at\u00a0spring commencement<\/a>.<\/p><\/div>\n \u201cGetting my doctoral degree just seemed like the next step in my professional career,\u201d Tipton said. \u201cI\u2019d been thinking about it for a long time and others had encouraged me to do it, but I waited a while to get my kids through high school before I decided to go for it.\u201d<\/p>\n On Friday, May 7, she\u2019ll graduate from the College of Nursing with a doctorate of nursing practice \u2014 one day ahead of her daughter, who is earning an undergraduate biology degree from UToledo at the spring commencement ceremonies.<\/p>\n Tipton balanced the program\u2019s coursework and clinical requirements with her full-time job at The University of Toledo Medical Center, where she\u2019s worked in various roles since 1988.<\/p>\n As manager of UTMC\u2019s infusion center since 2014, she oversees care coordination, staff education and collaborates with other patient service lines, such as pharmacy and the hospital\u2019s financial navigators. She also provides direct healthcare delivery.<\/p>\n \u201cShe goes above and beyond all the time, always looking for new ways to do things for our patients \u2014 hence continuing on in her education,\u201d said Chris Kosinski, director of the Eleanor N. Dana Cancer Center. \u201cThis isn\u2019t a \u2018look at me\u2019 accolade, this is Jan doing something that will ultimately help her better serve our cancer patient community.\u201d<\/p>\n By earning her doctorate, Janelle Tipton, an advanced practice nurse and manager of the infusion center at the Eleanor N. Dana Cancer Center, is fulfilling a longtime dream.<\/p><\/div>\n Returning to school after decades of clinical experience was an adjustment, but Tipton said it was well worth the effort.<\/p>\n \u201cIn nursing, there\u2019s always more to learn. That\u2019s been part of me for as long as I\u2019ve known,\u201d she said. \u201cThe coursework and everything about the program fit in nicely with my clinical practice. There are so many things that I\u2019m drawing upon now that have helped me think creatively, collaborate more and broaden my thinking about different clinical problems.\u201d<\/p>\n Tipton\u2019s connections to the University run deep. She earned her bachelor\u2019s degree through the former nursing education consortium program between UToledo and Bowling Green State University and met her husband, who has a master\u2019s degree from UToledo, in the Mulford Library. In addition to her daughter who is also graduating, her son also earned an engineering degree from UToledo three years ago.<\/p>\n Becoming a student again further engrained her in the University community.<\/p>\n \u201cI\u2019ve always been drawn to the academic side, the teaching and learning mission of the facility,\u201d she said. \u201cI\u2019ve been able to spend time working with lots of different people across disciplines on both our campuses. That\u2019s been inspiring.\u201d<\/p>\n Tipton will be among the speakers at the College of Nursing\u2019s convocation ceremony on Friday at John F. Savage Arena.<\/p>\n Kosinski said it\u2019s an honor befitting the caliber of person and colleague that Tipton is.<\/p>\n \u201cThere are a few people in my life who I think of as the smartest people I have ever come in contact with. Jan is one of those people,\u201d he said. \u201cI respect her very much for continuing on in her education and achieving her doctorate in nursing practice.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" On Friday, Jan Tipton graduates from the College of Nursing with a doctorate of nursing practice \u2014 one day ahead of her daughter, who is earning an undergraduate biology degree from UToledo.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":849,"featured_media":66445,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[50,69,1,40,7,63],"tags":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66436"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/849"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=66436"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66436\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":66438,"href":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66436\/revisions\/66438"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/66445"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=66436"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=66436"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=66436"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}<\/a><\/a>