Adetoun Olabowale Bailey, née Odufunade is a Nigerian nurse and nursing administrator.
Life
Bailey trained in
London as an
orthopaedic nurse and registered
midwife.
She qualified as a nurse in 1951, 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.
Bailey was secretary of the
Midwives Board of Nigeria from 1962 to 1972 and secretary of the
Nursing Council of Nigeria
The Nursing and Midwifery Council of Nigeria (abbr. NMCN), is the sole governing body that regulates all cadres of nurses and midwives in Nigeria. It was established by government decree in 1979, and re-established as a parastatal by the governmen ...
from 1972 to 1977.
When the two organizations were merged as the
Nursing and Midwifery Council of Nigeria in 1979, she served as its first registrar.
She was co-ordinating editor of a book series of textbooks on
tropical nursing and
health sciences published by
Macmillan
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from 1974 onwards,
and co-authored several titles in the series.
In 1981 she served as President of the
International Women's Society, Nigeria.
Past Presidents
International Women's Society, Nigeria. Accessed 17 January 2021.
Works
* (with C. K. O. Uddoh) ''Nutrition''. Macmillan Education, 1980.
* (with Victoria A. Ajayi) ''Textbook of Midwifery''. Macmillan Education, 1980.
* (with Anu Adegoroye) ''Community Health Care''. Macmillan Education, 1984.
References
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Year of birth missing (living people)
Living people
Nigerian nurses
Nursing administrators