Adetoun Olabowale Bailey

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.

She was co-ordinating editor of a book series of textbooks on tropical nursing and health sciences published by Macmillan from 1974 onwards,

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.