PMHNP Final Exam Practice Questions

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A 22-year-old patient with opioid use disorder presents to a medication follow-up, reporting he is four days clean from last use of oxycodone. His most recent AST and ALT labs were within normal limits, and he has tolerated oral naltrexone well previously. He would like to initiate vivitrol injection. The best response by the PMHNP is

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To initiate oral naltrexone for 1 week, administering the first vivitrol injection in 7 days

To order a UDS and hold vivitrol

To refer patient to inpatient psychiatric hospitalization for detoxification

To order a UDS and administer the vivitrol injection at this appointment due to established tolerance of oral naltrexone

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