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Remaining Time: 51 minutes, 42 seconds. Question Completion Status: QUESTION 8 The PMHNP is assessing a 49-year-old male with a history of depression, post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), alcoholism with malnutrition, diabetes mellitus type 2, and hypertension. His physical assessment is unremarkable tion of peripheral edema bilaterally to his lower extremities and a chief complaint of pain with numbness and tingling to each leg 5/10. The PMHNP starts this patient on a low dose of doxepin (Sinequan). What is the next action that must be taken by the PMHNP? O A. Orders liver function tests. B. Educate the patient on avoiding grapefruits when taking this medication. O C. Encourage this patient to keep fluids to 1500 ml/day until the selling subsides. O D. Order a BUN/Creatinine test Encourage this patient to keep fluids to 1500 ml/day until the swelling subsides. SAVE ALL ANSWERS

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The psychiatric mental health nurse practitioner should order a BUN creatinine test after tht beacause the patient is showing the symptoms of lower extremities edema with numbness which can be a indicator of higher blood urea nitrogen level and high creatinine level as because may be the kidney is not functioning properly..the drug named doxepin is a anti depressent drug which also can cause some side effects including urination trouble and other gastrointestinal side effects.so after obtaining the BUN AND CREATININE level liver function test should be done.