The patient with congestive heart failure in the cardiac intensive care unit (CICU) is ordered to receive IV furosemide once per day. The lab just called and reported the patient’s serum potassium is 2.9 mEq/L. The next dose of furosemide is due now. Which is the appropriate nursing action?

The nurse is reviewing the chart of a patient recently admitted to the hospital. The patient’s medication review includes bosentan, glyburide, praziquantel, and ergotamine. The nurse expects to observe which symptom in the patient?

The nurse is caring for a patient with schizophrenia who has bacterial endocarditis secondary to intravenous drug use. The patient’s antipsychotic medication is changed from risperidone to clozapine. Within days, the patient develops a serious cardiac arrhythmia. The nurse attributes the patient’s arrhythmia to which cause?