The nurse is assigned to a 45-year-old HIV-positive male patient who is admitted with a MRSA skin infection on his right arm secondary to intravenous drug use. The patient is prescribed intravenous vancomycin. Twenty minutes after starting the vancomycin infusion, the patient develops a mild erythematous macular rash on the face, trunk and extremities. Which action is performed first?
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