Janet Tyler (nurse)

Janet Tyler (right) with Sister Quigley and athlete Ali Bin Salleh at a sporting event for paraplegic athletes in Adelaide in the 1960s.

Janet Tyler OAM is an Australian Registered Nurse who was a member of the medical team selected to care for Australian athletes at the 1968 Summer Paralympics, Israel. She specialised in spinal nursing and rehabilitation at the Royal Adelaide Hospital and the Hampstead Rehabilitation Centre annex of Royal Adelaide Hospital, throughout the forty three years of her nursing career. Tyler was Senior Registered Nurse from 1964 to 1977, Clinical Nurse Coordinator from 1977 to 1986, Acting Nurse Manager at the Hampstead Centre from 1986 to 1994, Life Member of the Registered Nurse Association since 1951, Life Member of the Paraplegic and Quadriplegic Association of South Australia since 1977 and Justice of the Peace for over 30 years.[1]

  1. ^ McNamara, Paul. "Nurses on the 2015 Australia Day Honour List". Retrieved 30 January 2015.