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A newly certified PMHNP is beginning her first position at a community mental health center in a state that grants full practice authority to nurse practitioners. A patient with treatment-resistant depression requests a trial of esketamine nasal spray. The PMHNP must determine whether this intervention falls within her scope of practice and what regulatory requirements apply.