Schwartz Denise Baird

EDUCATION AND CREDENTIALS: California State University, Northridge, B.S. Degree, June 1972 University of California Hospitals and Clinics Internship, San Francisco, September 1973 California State University, Northridge, M.S. Degree, January 1982 Registered Dietitian (RD) since 1973, Registration #366865 Certified Nutrition Support Dietitian (CNSD) since 1988; name changed to Certified Nutrition Support Clinician (CNSC) 2012- April 2017 Charter Fellow of the American Dietetic Association (FADA) 1995 Charter Fellow of the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics (FAND) 2013 Fellow of the American Society for Enteral and Parenteral Nutrition (FASPEN) 2013 PRESENT POSITIONS: Bioethics Committee Community Member and participant in surrogate committee meetings at Providence Saint Joseph Medical Center (PSJMC) September 2016- present Coordinator for the Validation Survey of Nutrition Support Clinicians on Moral, Cultural, and Spiritual Practice Competencies When Involved with Artificially Administered Nutrition and Hydration 2022-2023 PREVIOUS POSITIONS: Dietitians in Nutrition Support Advanced Practice Residency (DNS-APR) Faculty for Nutrition Support for Adults ― Ethics 2018-2022 Providence Saint Joseph Medical Center (PSJMC) Burbank, California July 1998 to September 2016: Nutrition Support Coordinator (Developed position) Facilitate interdisciplinary collaborative efforts to enhance safe, effective, and ethically appropriate patient-centered nutrition support therapy. Develop and implement improving organization performance processes in the ICU and NICU and present data and change of practice to medical committees and at other health care team meetings. March 1979 to July 1998: Nutrition Support Specialist Responsible for education of staff dietitians on nutrition assessment techniques, development and implementation of parenteral and enteral feeding protocols, monitoring patients on enteral and parenteral nutrition, coordination of nutrition assessment monitoring with Pharmacy, Nursing, Laboratory, Central Service and Nutrition Service. PERTINENT EXPERIENCES AND AWARDS (abbreviated) Completed Basic Course for Group 1 Research Investigators and Key Personnel and IRB Members 2022 Providence Digestive Health Institute Nutrition Clinical Focus Group Member,developed Patient and Caregiver Guide to Feeding Tubes and Adult Percutaneous Feeding Tube Guidance For Providers 2020-2022 Coordinator of interdisciplinary performance improvement projects on Nutrition Management of Ventilator Dependent Patients to achieve best practice 1995-2016 and Nutrition Care of High-Risk Newborns to achieve best practice 1995-2016. Coordinated 2016 President's Award for Strategic Innovation for PSJMC application submitted to Providence Health and Services. Project title: ICU Time Out for Communication; the goal was to achieve early connection between the clinicians, hospitalized patient/family to address the need for life-sustaining medical therapies based on the individual’s quality-of-life goals. Coordinator of Clinical Nutrition Week 2016 session entitled Ethical Issues and Effective Communication in Informed Consent Nutrition Therapies−International Acting Out: Lessons Learned in Communication Skills, Austin, Texas, February 19, 2016. Coordinator of Clinical Nutrition Week 2015 session entitled Ethical Dilemmas in Communication Across the Age Spectrum: A Theatrical Presentation, Long Beach, California, February 15, 2015. Available at ASPEN website: www.nutritioncare.org Clinical Resources – Nutrition Support and Ethics Coordinator of Clinical Nutrition Week 2014 session entitled Creating a Health Care Environment to Prevent Nutrition Support Ethical Dilemmas, Savannah, Georgia, January 21, 2014. Appointed by President Elect of the American Society of Parenteral and Enteral Nutrition (ASPEN) as the First Chair of the newly formed International Clinical Ethics Section of ASPEN 2013. Principle Investigator at PSJMC for Improving the Practice of Nutrition Therapy in the Critically Ill: An International Quality Improvement Project 2007 coordinated by Dr. Darin Heyland and Naomi Cahill, RD, MSC. Chair of interdisciplinary Practice Audit Committee, appointed by the National Board of Nutrition Support Certification (NBNSC), to develop a survey to define the practice of professionals in nutrition support, incorporating input from dietetics, medicine, nursing and pharmacy 2004-2005. Coordinated the development of the Certified Nutrition Support Dietitian (CNSD) process and examination 1986 with the first exam in 1987 for ASPEN (process was anticipated to take two years, but completed in 9 months). Certification later changed to Certified Nutrition Support Clinician. Mission Spirit Award Winner March 2008, PSJMC, Burbank, California – given for unusual exemplary behavior demonstrating the Mission and Core Values of PSJMC.