Adejoke Ayoola

{{Short description|Nigerian academic and nursing researcher (born 1970)}}

{{Infobox academic

| birth_name = Adejoke Bolanle Ayoola

| birth_date = {{Birth date and age|1970|07|20}}

| birth_place = Nigeria

| discipline = Maternal and pediatric nursing

| nationality = Nigerian, American

| occupation = Professor of nursing

| workplaces = Calvin University

| alma_mater = Michigan State University (Ph.D.)
Obafemi Awolowo University (BSN, MSN)

}}

Adejoke Bolanle Ayoola (born July 20, 1970) is a Nigerian-American academic and nursing researcher at Calvin University.{{cite news|url=http://nursingdev.hit.msu.edu/downloads/Vol1_Iss9Jan.pdf |publisher=Michigan State University College of Nursing |date=January 2008 |title=Research Center Update |volume=1 |issue=9 |access-date=April 17, 2015 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150417194027/http://nursingdev.hit.msu.edu/downloads/Vol1_Iss9Jan.pdf |archive-date=April 17, 2015 }}{{cite web|url=http://www.grmag.com/features/01-13/01-13.htm|title=Grand Rapids Magazine|access-date=April 17, 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150417204214/http://www.grmag.com/features/01-13/01-13.htm|archive-date=April 17, 2015|url-status=dead}}

Education

Adejoke studied at Obafemi Awolowo University in Ile-Ife, Nigeria, earning BSN and MSN degrees in 1991 and 1998 respectively. She moved to the United States in 2001 to further her education, earning a Ph.D. from Michigan State University, East Lansing, Michigan, in 2007.

Adejoke was a Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Nurse Faculty Scholar at the Calvin College Department of Nursing (CCDON) in Grand Rapids, Michigan.{{cite web|title=Calvin College nursing professor wins $350,000 to educate low-income women about unplanned pregnancy|url=http://www.mlive.com/news/grand-rapids/index.ssf/2012/08/calvin_college_nursing_profess.html|publisher=Mlive Media|location=Michigan|author=Brian McVicar|date=August 29, 2012|access-date=April 17, 2015}}{{cite web|url=http://www.nursefacultyscholars.org/scholars/scholar-detail/adejoke-ayoola|title=Ayoola Adejoke|website=Nursefacultyscholars|access-date=April 17, 2015}}

Nursing research

Adejoke's work with low-income women from diverse ethnic backgrounds in Grand Rapids was published in the Journal of Midwifery & Women's Health in July 2013. She was also the major contributor in a study published in the American Journal of Obstetrics and Gynecology in 2009 examining the relationship between the time of recognition of pregnancy and birth outcomes, such as premature births, low birth weight, admission to the neonatal intensive care unit, and infant mortality. Her research focuses on promoting women and adolescent reproductive health with the primary aim of reducing poor maternal and child health outcomes. Her research on aspects of reproductive health knowledge and pregnancy planning regarding three residential, ethnically diverse low-income communities were the partnering neighborhoods with CCDON program. The goal of the project was to reduce the risk of unplanned pregnancy and promote early recognition of pregnancy. Her research illustrates the importance of nursing research and the research generation's relevance to sustaining effective nursing practice, especially within the constantly changing American health care system. Adejoke is a member of the Midwest Nursing Research Society (MNRS) and the CCDON Vice President for Sigma Theta Tau International Honor Society of Nursing, Kappa Epsilon-at-Large.{{cite journal|url=https://clinicaltrials.gov/ct2/show/NCT01849900|website=Clinical Trials|title=Preconception Reproductive Knowledge Promotion (PREKNOP)|date=8 April 2017 |last1=Ayoola |first1=Adejoke }}{{cite web|title=Top Professors and Administrators|url=http://www.cnaclasses.org/top-professors-and-administrators/nursing/|website=CNA|access-date=April 17, 2015}}{{cite web|url=http://congress.nursingsociety.org/documents/feede342.2014_congress_program.pdf|website=25th International Nursing Research Program|title=Congress Program|access-date=April 17, 2015}}{{cite web|url=http://www.ajog.org/article/S0002-9378%2809%2900505-5/references|website=American Journal of Obstetrics and Gynaecology|title=Adejoke Ayoola|access-date=April 17, 2015}}

Academic posts and honours

Fellow of the American Academy of Nursing (2020–present){{cite web|url=https://grbj.com/news/health-care/calvin-nursing-professor-inducted-american-academy-of-nursing/|title=Calvin nursing professor inducted into American Academy of Nursing|author=Danielle Nelson|date= 4 November 2020|website=Grand Rapids Business Journal|access-date= 22 May 2021}}
Assistant professor, August 2007–present: Department of Nursing, Calvin College, Grand Rapids
Research assistant, January 2005–present: Department of Medicine, Michigan State University.
Senior nurse educator, November 2000–August 2003: Post-Basic Nursing School, National Ear Care Center, Lagos, Nigeria.
Program officer, September 1999–October 2000: Action Health Incorporated, Lagos, Nigeria
Program officer, June 1998–August 1999: Women Health Promotion Project, Ile-Ife, Nigeria
Graduate nurse tutor, April 1994–June 1998: Department of Nursing, Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile-Ife, Osun State, Nigeria
Midwife tutor, May 1993–January 1994: School of Midwifery, Oluyoro Catholic Hospital, Ibadan, Oyo State, Nigeria.

Selected publications

{{cite conference|url=https://awhonn.confex.com/awhonn/2014/webprogram/Paper10524.html|title= Pregnancy Intention and Contraceptive Use Among Low Income Women, The Association of Women's Health, Obstetric and Neonatal Nurses is|date=June 15, 2014|location=Orlando, Florida}}
{{cite web|url=https://www.awhonn.org/awhonn/content.do?name=07_PressRoom/7B7_Sept16_Contraception_JOGNN.htm |title=Contraception Practices Place Low-Income Women at Risk for Unintended Pregnancy and Infant and Maternal Death |date=September 16, 2014 |website=The Association of Women's Health, Obstetric and Neonatal Nurses (AWHONN) |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150417191823/https://www.awhonn.org/awhonn/content.do?name=07_PressRoom%2F7B7_Sept16_Contraception_JOGNN.htm |archive-date=April 17, 2015 }}
{{cite journal|author=Adejoke Ayoola|title=Late Recognition of Unintended Pregnancies|journal = Public Health Nursing|volume=32|issue=5|pages=462–470|date=February 16, 2015|doi=10.1111/phn.12182|pmid=25655426}}
{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=5ZaHPJ3NXAYC&q=Adejoke+Ayoola+nursing+United+States|title=Timing of Pregnancy Recognition as a Predictor of Prenatal Care Initiation and Birth Outcomes|year=2008|author1=Adejoke Bolanle Ayoola|author2=Michigan State University|publisher=Michigan State University. College of Nursing |isbn=9780549617181}}
{{cite journal|url=http://www.ajog.org/article/S0002-9378(09)00505-5/abstract|date=May 10, 2009|author1=Adejoke B. Ayoola |author2=Manfred Stommel |author3=Mary D. Nettleman |title=Late recognition of pregnancy as a predictor of adverse birth outcomes (Presented at the National State of the Science Congress on Nursing Research, Washington, DC, Oct. 2-4, 2008|journal=American Journal of Obstetrics and Gynecology|volume=201|issue=2|pages=156.e1–156.e6|doi=10.1016/j.ajog.2009.05.011|pmid=19646566|url-access=subscription}}
{{cite journal|journal=Evidence-Based Nursing|volume=14|issue=2|url=http://m.ebn.bmj.com/content/14/2/55.extract|title=Reducing the number of antenatal care visits in low-risk pregnancies increases perinatal mortality in low- and middle-income countries; women in all settings prefer the standard visit schedule|author=Adejoke Ayoola|year=2011|pages=55–56|doi=10.1136/ebn1136|pmid=21421980 |s2cid=219236040|url-access=subscription}}

References

External links

{{cite web|url=http://www.calvin.edu/admin/provost/scholars/facultylectures/Ayoola.html|title=Ayoola Adejoke|website=Office for Research and scholarship, Department of Nursing Calvin College}}
{{cite web|url=https://calvin.edu/directory/people/adejoke-bolanle-ayoola |title=Adejoke Ayoola |website=Calvin University }}

Category:20th-century births

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Category:Michigan State University alumni

Category:American nursing educators

Category:African-American nurses