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Maumee Native Earns RN Degree, Becomes Third Generation Nurse

The power of family can be very strong for people. They are there through all walks of life and provide direction. For Alyson Stanton, a Fall 2022 nursing graduate, her family inspired her to pursue a career in nursing and carry on the family legacy.

Stanton is now a third-generation nurse, following her grandmother, Shirley, a cardiac nurse at the old Riverside Hospital in Toledo and her mother, Cynthia, a postpartum and blood management nurse at ProMedica Toledo Hospital.

Stanton did not intent to become a nurse, but her life’s path changed in 2017 when her grandmother was diagnosed with cancer. “My mom and I didn’t want her to have to go into a facility so my mom and I decided it was time to take care of her full time. That’s when the passion for becoming a nurse came to me,” she said. Growing up, Stanton always said she would never become a nurse because she was surrounded by her mom and grandma talking about it constantly. When she realized the impact that nursing had on her family and keeping her grandmother at home until she died in July of that year, her perspective of the nursing field was forever changed.

She enrolled at Owens to become a nurse. During Stanton’s clinical rotation in obstetrics, she was able to do a clinical with her mother. “My mom was the reason I enrolled at Owens. She graduated in 2008 and had nothing but amazing things to say about her time and I knew it was the place for me,” she said.

The Maumee native has one daughter who has her own inspiration to get into the medical field. “Every few days I hear ‘I want to be a doctor when I grow up’ and I’m happy she wants to be in the medical field just like mom, grandma and great-grandma,” Stanton said.