A P P E N D I X

TIMELINE EOR.
RUTH NITA BAUKOW

1946-49
1949-50
1952-54

President of JGTNA
Sister Tutor's Diploma, England
Sister Tutor, KPH Teacbing Department

1953-63
1954

Member of the GNGJ

Matron Designate of UGH (Attend Administrative Gourse in
London); Member of Education and Examination, Finance
and Disciplinary Gommittees of GNG

1955-56
1956-64
1957
1958

1959
1959

Matron, UGH
PNO, Ministry of Health Jamaica
Member, JGTNA Headquarters Gommittee, Executive
Member, JGTNA
Member, JGTNA Headquarters Gommittee, JGTNA;
recommended Miss Gloria Gumper, renowned lav^yer, be a
part of tbe general revision of JGTNA Gonstitution.
Member, Advisory Gommittee, KPH Teaching Department
Government representative at the Federal Nursing Administrators' Gonference in Barbados
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1962

PAHO/WHO fellowship to study baccalaureate degree at

Teachers Gollege, Golumbia University; on leave from PNO
post and as GNCJ member

1963

Returned from Teachers' College with Baccalaureate degree;

Resumed PNO position

1961-62
1963

Member, UCH Medical Advisory Committee

Chairman of Special Committee to examine existing
post-basic nursing education for establishment of university
education for senior nurses. In relationship to the exploration
of nursing education at UCH spoke to the Education
Committee 7 January 1963 on the impressions ofthe most
outstanding needs of nursing nurses in Jamaica

1964

Leave of absence from PNO; PAHO/WHO short-term

consultant

1964-65

Survey of schools of nursing in the Caribbean; Miss Barrow

gave the graduation address for nurses at UCH

1966

Resigned PNO position to become full-time PAHO/WHO

Nursing Consultant

1966-70
1968-69
1971
1976

Conducted seminars for senior nurses

External Examiner for ANEU nursing courses
Conducted resurvey of the Caribbean schools of nursing
Participated in RNB Meeting, Bermuda. Discussions led to
feasibility study and ultimately introduction of Regional
Examination for Nurse Registration in 1993

1980

Conferred with Fellow ofthe Royal College of Nursing ofthe

United Kingdom

1989

Awarded the ICN Christiane Reimann Prize for outstanding

nursing achievements

1996

Bust commemorating Barrow's contribution to nursing

erected at NAJ Headquarters