Background
Veronica Bulshefski was born on 2 February 1916 in Ashley, Pennsylvania.
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Bulshefski earned a Bachelor of Science degree in Nursing from Indiana University in 1956 and a Master of Science in Management from the Naval Postgraduate School in 1962.
Career
Veronica Bulshefski joined the Navy Nurse Corps in 1940 at the urging of her dentist, a World War I veteran. During World World War II she served in Hawaii at Pearl Harbor and Aiea Heights. She served as Chief Nurse at naval hospitals in Beaufort, South Carolina.
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Jacksonville, Florida. Pensacola, Florida and Oakland, California. She was selected for Captain in 1965 and on 29 April 1966 became the Director of the Navy Nurse Corps.
Captain Bulshefski retired from the United States Navy on 1 May 1970.
She died on 25 May 1995 and was buried at Arlington National Cemetery on 6 June 1995 with full military honors.
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