The nurse educator is reviewing the process of regulation of the female reproductive system. The nurse would arrange these steps in which order beginning with the initial step?
1. A surge of luteinizing hormone (LH) occurs
2. Ovarian follicles mature
3. Secretion of follicle-stimulating hormone (FSH) and luteinizing hormone (LH)
4. Secretion of gonadotropin-releasing hormone (GnRH)
5. The corpus luteum is formed
4,3,2,1,5
Global Rationale: The hypothalamus secretes GnRH, which stimulated FSH and LH. Ovarian follicles mature. A surge of LH occurs causing ovulation. The ruptured follicle remains in the ovary and transforms into the corpus luteum.
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