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If you were recruiting new partners for a coalition to address childhood asthma, who would you approach?

Listing partners is easy. The prompt asks how you would tell each one why they are needed, and that has to be an argument from their interests rather than yours.

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Last reviewed · August 25, 2026

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Maren Caldwell

MSN, RN, CNE

Medical-surgical nursing, pharmacology and NCLEX preparation

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Dr. Tessa Redmond

DNP, RN, CNE

Evidence-based practice and clinical education

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The ask has to be made in the partner's own terms

The list of partners for a childhood asthma coalition writes itself: schools and school nurses, paediatric practices and the emergency department, housing authorities and code enforcement, tenant organisations, pharmacists, Medicaid managed care plans, and the local health department. The prompt's second question is the one that requires thought, because articulating why they are needed has to be done in each partner's own terms rather than in yours. A housing authority is not moved by asthma prevalence; it may be moved by pest control and mould remediation costs, by tenant complaints, and by the vacancy and turnover that follow poor conditions. A managed care plan is not moved by community spirit; it is moved by avoidable emergency and inpatient use in a population it is financially responsible for. That reframing is the assignment, because a coalition invitation that describes the health problem to an audience with a different mandate is a request for charity rather than a proposition.

Being specific about what each partner uniquely holds is the other half. Schools hold attendance data, daily access to the child and the ability to hold a rescue inhaler; housing holds the ability to change the exposure, which is the only lever that addresses the cause rather than the attack; clinicians hold the prescription and the action plan; the health department holds surveillance data and convening authority. Saying what each one brings that nobody else can is a more persuasive articulation than describing the problem again, and it also protects the coalition from the failure mode where twelve organisations attend, none has a defined contribution, and the meetings stop after four months. Note that the prompt explicitly requires no research citations, so the work here is the reasoning rather than the sourcing. Twelve organisations in a room with no defined contributions is the shape a coalition dissolves in.

Likely learning objectives

Make a recruitment argument in the partner's own terms.
Identify what each partner uniquely contributes.
Distinguish addressing exposure from managing attacks.
Avoid the coalition failure mode of undefined contributions.

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HLT 665 Topic 8 DQ 2 One of the attributes of a community leader is an ability to influence others toward some kind of action (e.g., join our coalition, give to our cause, and stop smoking). If you were recruiting new partners for a coalition to address childhood asthma, who would you approach? How would you articulate why they are needed? No research citations are required for this discussion question.

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What Topic 8 DQ 2 asks for

01Who you would approach to recruit as new partners for a coalition addressing childhood asthma.
02How you would articulate why they are needed.
03A response consistent with the attribute of influencing others toward action.
04No research citations required.