The nursing instructor explains that defining "rural" is often difficult because
a. agencies use multiple different definitions.
b. everyone's ideas of "rural" are different.
c. there has been no need to define this population.
d. there is no interest in defining this population.
A
Many governmental agencies use different definitions of "rural." In this country, there are more than 15 "official" definitions of rural.
Although people may have different ideas of what the word "rural" means, this is not the reason defining it is difficult.
There is a need and an interest in defining the rural population.
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