The nurse practitioner is caring for a 19-year-old female college student with iron deficiency anemia secondary to heavy menstrual bleeding. an appropriate initial treatment for this patient is:

An appropriate initial treatment for this patient is oral ferrous sulfate. This is an iron supplement which is needed to to treat or prevent low blood levels of iron which can happen during anemia. The patient loses a lot of blood so she need to consume such a medication in order to produce red blood cells.

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