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8/20/2015

The Yellow "Sick" Road: A Nurse's Travels for 22 Years is about to hit the publishing world. It is filled with whimsical illustrations to help put a lighter spin on the dark story of bullying in the workplace.

The Yellow Sick Road explains my journey down a road that was sometimes crooked, sometimes bumpy, and sometimes pleasant. The Witches - East, West, North, and South - represent the charge nurses and management. The nurse’s aides are the Flying Monkeys. The Wizard of Oz is the CEO. The lion, scarecrow, and tin man have character qualities and desires that match my own. Emerald City is the hospital, and Dorothy’s home is like my home, sweet home whenever I returned from working as a travel nurse for past six years.

There’s no place like home!

I have not held back or exaggerated any of the facts and stories written here. I have also added some incidents from my personal life in order for you to understand my deep desire to be a nurse and where that path led me. I am proud to be a nurse.

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claudia sanborn link

11/28/2016 05:42:58 pm

What would you do as a nurse if you just worked a 12 hour night shift and it was snowy outside when you started to drive home. It took over an hour to get home. When I walked in the door the phone rang and it was my nurse manager stating I didn't sign a discharge note and had to come back in to sign it right now.

I asked her if she could please hold it until I come in on my next shift and she said no. So I got in the car in a snow storm and drove back. Walked in a took 2 sec to sign.

I got back in car and put myself in harms way and drove home thankful I did not kill my self by falling asleep or getting into an accident.

I have been in management before and we usually call and let them know they didn't sign there work and flag it and they come in and sign it.

What would you have done if you were me?

Mary Flaherty

11/29/2019 01:23:01 pm

I would have done just what you did. I had probably been in the
Same situation!

Tonya Frazier

10/4/2020 01:22:54 pm

I have read the introduction of this book. As I've read through the stories I could not help but to think of my own journey as a nurse. Nursing is my second career, after spending 13 yrs with the USPS. As I entered into my new career, I found it very disheartening to witness the amount of bullying that took place. We go into nursing to care for or help others at a time in their life they are the most vulnerable. We are the one that holds the mother's hand as the DR tells her there is no heartbeat in standing in his office , we are the one that that hand the stillborn baby to the mother in the hospital as the parents count the fingers and toes of the deceased baby, we are the one that gives hope to parents when they have just been given the diagnosis Autism for their son, we are the ones that comfort the spouse when the DR tells them there love one has cancer, we are the ones that show support when that love one passes only 21 days from the diagnosis of Pancreatic CA leaving the mother to raise 3 young children by herself. You can only imagine the hurt I felt as I witnessed the bullying. The life experiences above are mine. I remember all the Nurses in my life only to see how a couple of them treat other nurse's. In 2011 I got a DUI after taking Ambien. I had worked short staffed on a Cardiac step down until the night before and went home and took my Ambien to be able to sleep that day. I was pulled over at 230 in the afternoon sound asleep, driving. I self reported myself to the BON only to find myself in the middle of the most judgemental board which is made up of mostly nurses. Because of the DUI it has been very difficult to find employment. Nurses don't want to hear I've went through all of the BON request with letters to show I'm not a drug addict and I'm very competent to care for my patients safely. I've found out that someone that has spent time incarcerated have a better chance of getting a second chance from a nurse than a nurse. Yet we are the ones that support and help everyone else.

Claudia Sanborn link

10/4/2020 09:07:59 pm

Hi Tonya,
I just read your comment and what happened to you about your DUI. I'm not sure but I've been told that you can hire an attorney and have that dropped off your record after a certain time frame. I think you might like my book. I would be glad to just send it to you if it would help. I'm on FB. You could message me your address. I think there is a way to help you. Claudia Sanborn RN,ONC,CRRN

Claudia Sanborn link

3/2/2022 08:41:33 pm

Just wondering if I should enter my book The Yellow Sick Road at the LA Times Book Fair with Readers Magnet? I'm still trying to help nurses and market my book to let the world know what is really going on in the medical field.

Claudia Sanborn link

3/2/2022 08:46:11 pm

Dr Roger Watson
4.0 out of 5 stars Why can't nurses care for each other?
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on November 28, 2016
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This is an eminently readable book about one nurse's journey through nursing with the background of a very interesting life woven through it. The book is illustrated in the style of the Yellow Brick Road and this is the analogy referred to in title. Many of the people and scenarios are compared to Yellow Brick Road characters. Nurses often reflect of a string of positive experiences and privileges throughout their career and Claudia Sandborn has had some of these. But the really theme of the book is the sick culture in nursing whereby bullying, harassment and intimidation take place from colleagues (these days often refereed to as 'horizontal violence' or 'horizontal bullying') and from managers. Claudia Sandborn experienced here fair share of that and the chapters take you on a your from one employment disaster to another with an almost endless variety in the ways people can make your working life a misery. People in other countries where I work: UK and Australia especially, will recognise much of this and, while they may not have much to learn from this book, it could serve as a text to teach nursing students and those studying nursing management how to identify, manage and - with any luck - avoid these terrible situations. The 'backdrop' to the story is a young Mormon woman growing up with four children and an unfaithful husband who leaves her; she then enters nursing and I know that there is more to be told of the backdrop. The author is a direct descendent of Joseph Smith.
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