The nurse educator is talking with a group of students doing their gynecological rotation. The nurse describes a number of symptoms that include anovulation, reduced fertility, either decreased or increased menstrual flow, and menstrual cycle irregularities. The nurse is describing:

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The nurse is describing symptoms commonly associated with menopause, which is the permanent cessation of menstruation and fertility in women. Anovulation, reduced fertility, and menstrual irregularities are common during the menopausal transition, along with either decreased or increased menstrual flow. Intermenstrual bleeding is bleeding between menstrual periods, hypermenorrhea is abnormally heavy menstrual bleeding, and primary amenorrhea is the failure to start menstruating by age 16. None of these options fit with the symptoms being described by the nurse.

The Nurse Educator Is Talking with a Group of Students