Background
Nielubowicz, Mary Joan was born on February 5, 1929 in Shenandoah, Pennsylvania, United States. Daughter of Joseph John and Ursula Elizabeth (Czepukaitis) Nielubowicz.
Nielubowicz, Mary Joan was born on February 5, 1929 in Shenandoah, Pennsylvania, United States. Daughter of Joseph John and Ursula Elizabeth (Czepukaitis) Nielubowicz.
While in the Nurse Corps, she earned a Bachelor of Science degree from the University of Colorado in 1961 and a master of science degree in nursing from the University of Pennsylvania in 1965.
She earned a nursing diploma from Misericordia Hospital, Philadelphia, in 1950. Nielubowicz joined the Navy Nurse Corps in 1951. She served in areas around the globe, including Portsmouth, Virginia, Corona, California, Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, Annapolis, Maryland, Philadelphia, Washington, District of Columbia, Iwakuni, Japan, Cherry Point, North Carolina, Guam and Long Beach, California.
Billets of increasing responsibility included that of senior nurse at the branch clinic in Iwakuni, Japan in 1967.
In 1979 she became director of nursing services at the Naval Regional Medical Center, Portsmouth, Virginia. She became director of the Navy Nurse Corps in 1983, and was promoted to the rank of Commodore (equivalent to today"s Rear Admiral (lower half).
In 1985 the rank was changed to Rear Admiral.). She served concurrently as deputy commander for Personnel Management and later as deputy commander for Health Care Operations.
Admiral Nielubowicz died at her home in Fairfax, Virginia on 24 March 2008.
She was interred at Arlington National Cemetery on 21 May 2008.
Member of Association Military Surgeons United States (chairman nursing section 1984), Association Nurse Executives, National League Nursing, American Nurses Association, Sigma Theta Tau.