Rural and Migrant Populations
Which statement is true when determining if a geographic area is rural or urban? - correct answer
✔✔Rural and urban areas, by relative nature, occur on a continuum.
Click to specify the number of individuals who live in the areas listed in the left column. Each row may
include one or more responses. - correct answer ✔✔Less than 6 per square mile:
Frontier
Less than 20,000:
Rural
20,000 to 49,999:
Urban
1 million or more:
Urban
A nurse in a community health clinic located in Virginia is conducting an assessment on a Hispanic
worker currently working in a local apple orchard for the season. The nurse determines that the worker
originates from Florida and is living in temporary housing with other orchard workers. Based on this
information, the nurse should integrate the special needs of what vulnerable population? - correct
answer ✔✔migrant farmworkers
When planning primary prevention education for a rural community, the nurse should consider
interventions based on which facts about rural American health? Select all that apply. - correct answer
✔✔Higher rates of diabetes mellitus
Higher infant and maternal morbidity rates
Higher rates of obesity
Less likely to meet physical activity recommendations
Which statement is true when determining if a geographic area is rural or urban? - correct answer
✔✔Rural and urban areas, by relative nature, occur on a continuum.
Click to specify the number of individuals who live in the areas listed in the left column. Each row may
include one or more responses. - correct answer ✔✔Less than 6 per square mile:
Frontier
Less than 20,000:
Rural
20,000 to 49,999:
Urban
1 million or more:
Urban
A nurse in a community health clinic located in Virginia is conducting an assessment on a Hispanic
worker currently working in a local apple orchard for the season. The nurse determines that the worker
originates from Florida and is living in temporary housing with other orchard workers. Based on this
information, the nurse should integrate the special needs of what vulnerable population? - correct
answer ✔✔migrant farmworkers
When planning primary prevention education for a rural community, the nurse should consider
interventions based on which facts about rural American health? Select all that apply. - correct answer
✔✔Higher rates of diabetes mellitus
Higher infant and maternal morbidity rates
Higher rates of obesity
Less likely to meet physical activity recommendations
