Adetoun Olabowale Bailey

Adetoun Olabowale Bailey, née Odufunade is a Nigerian nurse and nursing administrator.[1]

Life

Bailey trained in London as an orthopaedic nurse and registered midwife.[2] She qualified as a nurse in 1951,[3] and in the early 1950s worked as a staff nurse, student midwife and nursing sister in the UK and Nigeria. From 1956 to 1958 she was a ward administrator and teaching sister at General Hospital, Limbe, Cameroon. From 1958 to 1961 she was operating theatre sister at General Hospital, Lagos.[1]

Bailey was secretary of the Midwives Board of Nigeria from 1962 to 1972 and secretary of the Nursing Council of Nigeria from 1972 to 1977.[1] When the two organizations were merged as the Nursing and Midwifery Council of Nigeria in 1979, she served as its first registrar.[4]

She was co-ordinating editor of a book series of textbooks on tropical nursing and health sciences published by Macmillan from 1974 onwards,[1] and co-authored several titles in the series.

In 1981 she served as President of the International Women's Society, Nigeria.[5]

Works
  • (with C. K. O. Uddoh) Nutrition. Macmillan Education, 1980. ISBN 978-0333284377
  • (with Victoria A. Ajayi) Textbook of Midwifery. Macmillan Education, 1980. ISBN 978-0333275849
  • (with Anu Adegoroye) Community Health Care. Macmillan Education, 1984. ISBN 978-0333286234

References
  1. Elizabeth Sleeman (2001). "BAILEY, Adetoun Olabowale". The International Who's Who of Women 2002. Psychology Press. pp. 36–7. ISBN 978-1-85743-122-3.
  2. Albert Aduloju Agbaje (2001). Abiodun Lagos, a Blossomy Tree in the Desert: A Biography of Joseph Abiodun Adetiloye. CSS Limited. p. 102. ISBN 978-978-2951-73-1.
  3. Registration of Nurses, Federal Republic of Nigeria Official Gazette, Vol. 56, No 6 (1st February 1969)
  4. M. Elizabeth Carnegie (1999). The Path We Tread: Blacks in Nursing Worldwide, 1854-1994. Jones & Bartlett Learning, LLC. p. 267. ISBN 978-0-7637-1247-1.
  5. Past Presidents, International Women's Society, Nigeria. Accessed 17 January 2021.
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