Heather Baid

Dr Heather Baird is a registered nurse who completed a BSN (Bachelor of Science in Nursing) in 1996 at the University of British Columbia and initially worked on surgical and medical wards in Vancouver, Canada and London, England. She then went on to complete her critical care nursing education in 2000 at the British Columbia Institute of Technology in Burnaby, Canada and worked on intensive care units as a clinical nurse in both Vancouver, Canada and Brighton, England. 

Heather is particularly interested in researching the sustainability of critical care practice while sufficing within the limits of available environmental, financial and social resources. Her PhD thesis presented a conceptual framework of sustainability in critical care based on qualitative grounded theory research which explored the subjective perspective of people working in critical care. The PhD research findings are now being used to develop further studies focused on environmental sustainability under the umbrella title of the GREEN-ICU research project (GREeater ENvironmental sustainability in Intensive Care Units). Heather is leading the GREEN-ICU research studies as a collaborative project, with the first phase currently in the proposal stage.