Throughout the process, Dionne says they have gone from individual faculty members to now a cohesive support system. When the opportunity came to start a Sigma chapter at Nightingale College, Dionne was thrilled and immediately knew that she wanted to be a part of the team responsible for making it happen. After graduation, Dionne accepted an offer to become part of the Nightingale College Faculty Team where she gives others the encouragement that they need to get through their hard days. But she knew she wasn’t finished and achieved her Master of Science in Nursing in Nursing Education (MSN-Ed), graduating with a 4.0 GPA. That day came 17 years later when she obtained her Associate of Science in Nursing (ASN) and then later completed her Bachelor of Science in Nursing (BSN), becoming valedictorian at each graduation. She admired all the nurses who had shown her family unlimited compassion over the years and knew that she wanted to pay it forward one day. Needing to stop school to support her five children, one of whom became a medically fragile child, Dionne put her nursing dreams on hold. But she set out to prove them wrong.Īfter becoming a licensed practical nurse (LPN) in 2000, Dionne’s journey could’ve ended there. As someone who was born deaf, people told her she could never be a nurse. Sigma member Dionne DeMille knows this all too well.
Have you ever been faced with a challenge so difficult you didn’t know if you could achieve it? A challenge that might’ve taken years to accomplish but you never stopped pushing because that inner voice of yours kept propelling you forward, knowing that you would make it because you are more than capable of achieving great things?
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