osburn training academy
Founded on the basis of providing training to a standard, which we believe every
learner deserves we ensure each course is tailored to your needs, we talk to
you, listen to you and provide you with feedback for each learner. Osburn
Training Academy is proud of the rich heritage surrounding the Osburn name.
Having completed her studies under Florence Nightingale, Lucy Osburn was chosen
to travel to Australia where she redefined the approach to nursing practice, her
compassionate approach, impeccable nursing standards and pioneering drive
inspired us to continue her legacy through training and educating others. In
March 1868, Lucy-Osburn, with five other nursing sisters, arrived in Sydney to
take charge of the Infirmary. They were sent by Florence Nightingale in answer
to an appeal from Henry Parkes, Premier of New South Wales. A week later they
had a royal patient, when the Duke of Edinburgh was wounded by a would-be
assassin at Clontarf. But in spite of the public acclaim this brought them, Lucy
Osburn and her staff faced a long fight with prejudice and ignorance in their
efforts to reform the infirmary. The idea of gentlewomen working as hospital
nurses was still novel, and to many people shocking; Lucy Osburn own father had
turned her portrait to face the wall when she entered the Nightingale College of
Nursing. Thwarted at every turn by suspicion and jealousy, even among the
doctors, and by an inefficient system of management, Lucy Osburn battled on
undaunted, for 16 years and eight months. Most of the Lucy Osburn sisters took
up positions as matrons at various hospitals. By these means the Nightingale
teaching and standards became accepted practice in the hospital system of the
colony. By the time she returned to England she had laid the foundation of
modern nursing in New South Wales, and Sydney Hospital was launched on its long
and distinguished career of service to the community. After some years nursing
among the sick and poor in London, Lucy died of diabetes at her sister’s home in
Harrogate in 1891.
