Nurse with attitude coming through -- make way, make way

Today, I ran into the "I've worked for over 30 years as a nurse, and I don't think you're doing a very good job, and I could do it better, and YOU DON'T EVEN LOOK LIKE A NURSE!!!" lady. *sigh* I made the mistake of going to get a resident's blood pressure while her daughter was in the room. I'd just gotten on shift and forgot my name tag, and was told very pointedly that she expected nurses to look like nurses. Ah well, I'm not a nurse, I'm a CNA. Then I tried to do the blood pressure, but was nervous, because she was right there, watching me, and forgot how to do it. Right, this is good. So she shows me how its done. Then the electronic device doesn't work, because I have it on wrong. But by now, I'm feeling like a real moron, because I don't know why its not working. So I use the traditional one. Which I haven't used/practiced for over a year. And I'm not too confident on yet. Right. I perform spectacularly; I do it wrong, and think the diastolic is the systolic and... okay, never mind. Anyway, the point is, the daughter complained that she didn't see why I had to get the vitals since they were going to the doctors anyway...

I was never so glad to leave a room. But I did feel better when I later found out that she (the daughter) had yelled at the *real* nurse at the doctors office when she was taking the vitals -- and made her retake the BP 3 TIMES!!!!

Whew... Okay, so I got the BP thing down quite exceptionally after today. I guess that's a good thing.