‘Nurse’?

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Since my students have just this day of duty, I let them monitor the vital signs, and do bedside care to their respective clients. I assigned one of my level 3 nursing student to a female client who is sick of community acquired pneumonia- high risk, coronary artery disease, and congestive heart failure. My student Miss C, took the blood pressure of her patient as 160/100mmHg. She referred it to me. I told her to recheck the BP after 30 minutes, but still the patient’s BP was the same. Because of that, the client’s significant other who is her daughter, took the BP apparatus and stethoscope of my student and took the BP of the patient. She later said it is 140/90. I then asked her, “Are you a nurse too?” She said yes. I acknowledged her and then I checked the patient’s BP because apparently, the SO (significant other) was insinuating that my student was not correct with her BP reading. It was 160/90mmHg. I told her that was the BP I took. The SO then said, “I was rushing in deflating the BP cuff so I misread the BP”. I later asked my student if the SO was really a nurse. She told us (me and her classmates) that the SO graduated from nursing course but did not pass the licensure examination. I nodded. Next, I tested if she really is a nurse. I told her that I also have heart ailment, and I enumerated the abbreviations of my illness. “I also have RHD, MS, MR, LVH, and beginning CHF”. She stared at me with questioning eyes. I responded to her husband, “She knows that because she is my colleague”. I did not mean to embarrass her, but she should be humble enough to accept and admit my student’s blood pressure reading and not indirectly point out that my student needs to learn more. Oh, if you only saw how she looked at my student when her mother’s BP reading was 160/100mmHg. I sympathize with my student. She was misty-eyed when that SO was looking at her.