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Lucy Osburn 1856

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Lucy Osburn 1856

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State Library of New South Wales

[a928870 / MIN 283]

(Mitchell Library)

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Nursing

Members of one of the most trusted professions, nurses have experienced enormous changes in their role, training, professional status and effectiveness over the period since the establishment of the first hospitals in Sydney.

Osburn, Lucy

Trained under Florence Nightingale, Lucy Osburn became Lady Superintendent of Sydney Hospital in 1868, and despite controversy and ill health, began the process of remaking hospital care and professionalising nursing.

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Osburn, Lucy

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Nurse trained by Florence Nightingale, who became the first Lady Superintendent of Sydney Hospital.