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