Furosemide

Sounds like a homework question to me. Current BP/HR, Bun/Creatinine, as well as Potassium levels. Now you tell me why.

Shouldn't this be in the nursing student section?

OP, how does Lasix work on the kidneys? How will that affect it's function?

@brown rice .. Read ur book please :)

Don't you just love it....

If you're in med surg and don't know the basics to this question, I wonder how you could pass NCLEX like the rest of us have.

Seriously, I think this belongs in the nursing student section.

Potassium most important you need to watch.. Oh and BP def!

Can we be nice about this and just help OP out? Yes, it could be in the nursing student thread, but I think it's worse that you guys are mean about the fact that OP asked the question.

Can we be nice about this and just help OP out? Yes, it could be in the nursing student thread, but I think it's worse that you guys are mean about the fact that OP asked the question.

How is it mean? A quick look in a drug guide will give the information the OP requested. We're not here to do homework for others.

Yes, I agree with you that the OP could have looked it up in a drug guide or the internet, however, my point is that if there is nothing good or helpful to say about it, it should have been better for us not to comment on it at all. Some comments on here are very condescending and I just thought that there is no need for that. I have been through this kind of behaviors at work and I just wish that we all can work together, even online as professionals.

So I have to be "professional" and not express my opinion on the safety issues of a nurse who doesn't understand or care to investigate the actions of a very common drug.

But it is *not* unprofessional to put no effort into educating one's self of a potentially lethal medication?

I learn something new every day.

Yes, I agree with you that the OP could have looked it up in a drug guide or the internet, however, my point is that if there is nothing good or helpful to say about it, it should have been better for us not to comment on it at all. Some comments on here are very condescending and I just thought that there is no need for that. I have been through this kind of behaviors at work and I just wish that we all can work together, even online as professionals.

The OP can "work" by doing the principle that was taught to all of us in nursing school; be a self-starter and look up the information.

Per TOS, we DON'T do homework...stating we don't do homework is NOT mean, it is what it is.

If this OP is a nurse, their supervisor or BON would NOT be mean if they were to find out that they didn't use their OWN nursing judgement to find out this information and a preventable adverse event occurred and they had to be reprimanded for not knowing basic information or at least putting in the effort to find out.

I don't know what experiences you went through, but fit would be best served not to project your feeling or experiences to a forum that has TOS that are adhered to.

Readily giving someone information doesn't help to promote a nursing judgement that is of independent thinking and research that is needed to have a strong base in advocating for pts; when one is looking at others to do their work, how are they going to know what is right or wrong it the BEST practice when they haven't even done the work? They WON'T.