Barbara Preusse Bleuler, MScN, is a faculty member at the School of Health Professions, Institute of Nursing, Zurich University of Applied Sciences in Winterthur, Switzerland. She has been very involved in knowledge transfer of family nursing to practice settings through Switzerland and beyond over several years and in many health care settings. She translated Wright & Leahey’s Nurses and Families: A Guide to Family Assessment into the German language and uses the Calgary Family Assessment and Intervention Models in her knowledge translation work. At the recent Family Health Across Lifespan International Conference held in the Netherlands in February, 2018, her novel poster, “BAIA: A Metaphor and an Acronym” about the implementation of the Calgary Family Assessment and Intervention Models won first prize.
The poster focused on the importance of creating space for a family interview using the acronym BAIA: This metaphor and acronym renders the necessity of relationship building in family nursing interviews more memorable and tangible.
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