Why do nursing students need to study economics?

I don't know, I'm a pharmacy student and I had to take microeconomics. It makes no sense to me either.

They could end up in administrative positions some day, running a clinic or managing a physician's office, I imagine.

Well I'm not sure where you live. I am a nursing student and I do not have to take economics. I'm not sure why some schools would make them.

What state do you live in? None of the nursing pre-req's where I live include economics. Are you in the actual nursing program or still taking the pre-req's? I haven't seen economics listed as any of the courses for nursing schools here in FL, either. Sociology is a requirement but not economics.

So you have a better education and a greater depth of knowledge on the world aroun d you. Its like that with all schooling. Im gonna be a pharmacist or doctor, so I dont need social studies, calculus, statistics, physics, university english, etc... Yet im required to take all that.

I wish after high school, that in universit they would just teach you what you need to know for your job. This would make it a lot faster, cheaper.

For the same two reasons that everyone has to study economics.

1. Economics effects your life, especially your wallet, no matter what you do for a living. A basic understanding of economics will help you put that nursing money to better use, making you more profitable and successful.

2. A lot of people decide they want to be a nurse, or for that matter an anthropologist or chemist or hospitality expert or whatever, and then they get half way through and change their mind. It happens so much that naturally schools want to make sure their students are exposed to different types of classes so that they will be better prepared to make an informed decision on their future. Making nursing students study economics is a part of that trend.

Whether you like it or no, economics are part of our everyday lives. There are certain cases that we can relate economics on nursing. ^_^