A nurse works hard to develop alliances among various community organizations toward improving health in the community. What are actions such as this called?

Correct Answer: A

Rationale: By definition, establishing alliances among organizations is coalition building, aimed at collective action for community health improvement.

Correct Answer: A

Rationale: Often the patient is blamed and labeled as being noncompliant. It is more helpful to wonder what barriers interfered with the patient's ability to engage in appropriate action. It is unlikely that the client doesn't understand or doesn't care, rather the barriers are preventing action from being taken. Barriers may prevent the change, but not necessarily the desire to change.

Correct Answer: B

Rationale: At the core of health education is the development of trusting relationships based on nurturing interactions; thus, this action must be completed before completing any other action.

Correct Answer: D

Rationale: Learners must be involved in determining their own health education needs and priorities. Both the formal and informal leadership would have useful information to share, but the crucial component is input from the target group.

Correct Answer: D

Rationale: The HBM was created to explain why people did or did not participate in health education programs to prevent or detect disease, even when the programs were free. The HBM addresses factors that provide health-enhancing behaviors. Pender's Health Promotion Model (HPM) aims to explain why individuals engage in health actions. HPM has been used in studies identifying factors that enhance health-promoting behaviors of military spouses.