A patient has recently begun taking carbamazepine (Tegretol) as an adjunct medication to treat refractory seizures.The patient has a serum carbamazepine level of 18 mcg/mL.What action will the nurse take?
A) Ask the patient about usual dietary preferences.
B) Reassure the patient that this is a therapeutic drug level.
C) Report a subtherapeutic drug dose to the provider.
D) Suspect a drug-drug interaction.
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