I've never heard of paying someone to take blood pressures for you but you can hear your own pulse in your ears. Does your wife have a friend in the program who can help her listen to b/p's with a dual headed stethescope I'd hope they have at the school? Sometimes they are very difficult to hear. Maybe she needs a different stethescope. In the program I was in and the one I teach in they wouldn't make it out of 1st semester if you can't take a b/p. Is she able to listen to a pulse?