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Elfrida O. Adebo
Born3 March 1928 Edit this on Wikidata
OccupationUniversity teacher Edit this on Wikidata

Elfrida O. Adebo, née Olaniyan (born 1928) is a Nigerian nurse and academic. In 1984, she became the first professor of nursing in Nigeria.[1]

Life

Adebo was born in Abeokuta, Ogun State,[2] on 3 March 1928.[3] She started her nursing career in London,[1] training as a staff nurse and midwife at St Mary's Hospital, London in 1957-58.[3] In 1959 she returned to Nigeria to work as a Public Health Nurse in Ibadan.[1] She gained a D.P.H. in Nursing in 1961, and a Bachelor of Nursing in 1962.[2] After briefly working as an instructor at the School of Hygiene in Ibadan, she became a lecturer at the University of Ibadan.[1] Joining the Department of Nursing in October 1967, she became acting Head of Department by 1970.[4] From 1976 to 1980 she studied at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.[3] In 1980, she was appointed Head of Department at the Department of Nursing in Ibadan.[4]

In 1973, she was a member of the Experts Advisory Panel on Nursing for the World Health Organization. She was also a consultant to Nigeria's Federal Ministry of Health.[1]

Works

  • (with Ann C. Chokrieh) 'The measurement and comparison of the democratic versus autocratic attitudinal change of the B.Sc. (Nursing) students of the University of Ibadan during the 1972/3 academic session'. International Journal of Nursing Studies, Vol. 13, Issue 2 (1976), pp.103-113
  • (with Ann C. Chokrieh) 'Evaluation of nursing knowledge and skills in Nigeria'. International Nursing Review, Vol. 24, No. 2 (March-April 1977), pp.55-60.
  • Universities, nurses and nursing: an inaugural lecture delivered at University of Ibadan in 1983. Ibadan, Nigeria: University of Ibadan, 1990. ISBN 978-9781212062

References

  1. ^ a b c d e Michael Orodare, Dr Doyin Abiola, Prof. Elfrida Adebo, Major General Aderonke Kale – Extraordinary Nigerian women who made history in male-dominated fields, Neusroom, 14 May 2020. Accessed 17 January 2021.
  2. ^ a b Adetunji Akinyotu (1989). Who's who in Science and Technology in Nigeria. Federal University of Technology. p. 10. ISBN 978-978-2475-00-8.
  3. ^ a b c Joseph A. Balogun (2020). Healthcare Education in Nigeria: Evolutions and Emerging Paradigms. Taylor & Francis. p. 2. ISBN 978-1-00-031961-3.
  4. ^ a b Wakeel Adelani T. Tijani (2003). Nigerian Nursing at the Cross-roads. College Press & Publishers. p. 149. ISBN 978-978-2194-19-0.