A nurse enrolls in a microeconomics course at a local college. Which of the following best de-scribes the rationale for taking this course?
a. Nurses are often the ones to allocate re-sources to solve a problem.
b. Nurses are often involved in federal policy making.
c. Health care policy can be influenced using these principles.
d. Health care supplies can be very costly and nurses must use them wisely.
ANS: A
Nurses often allocate resources, design, plan, coordinate, and evaluate community-based health services. Policy making addresses a macroeconomics issue. It is true that nurses need to know about microeconomics in order to use resources appropriately, but the scope of quality of care and use of health care supplies is larger than the scope of only microeconomics.
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