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A PMHNP working in a community mental health center sees a patient who was recently discharged from inpatient care. The discharge summary includes a medication regimen that the PMHNP believes is clinically inappropriate (high-dose benzodiazepine in a patient with a substance use history). The patient expects the PMHNP to continue the regimen. What should the PMHNP do?