Tamra Johnson, ARNP, PMHNP-BC is a Psychiatric Mental Health Nurse Practitioner at Woman’s Health Care Center, at UW Medical Center – Roosevelt. She provides mental healthcare services for individuals ages 13 and older and works collaboratively with the primary care providers, obstetrics and gynecology providers, specialty healthcare providers, and MSWs, to provide a “team-based” approach to wellness.
Ms. Johnson is interested in collaborative and integrated healthcare because she is passionate about everyone having an opportunity to have access to psychiatric care and believes that collaborative and integrated healthcare is the pathway to achieve this. She appreciates being a part of the primary care, OB/GYN, and specialty care teams, and to be able to provide psychiatric care within the clinic where the patients already feel comfortable and are often well known to their care team. Through this fellowship, she hopes to gain insight and a greater understanding of how collaborative care can give more patients access to psychiatric care.
Ms. Johnson chose to participate in this fellowship to increase her knowledge and skill base in providing the collaborative healthcare that she plans to continue to develop and share within the clinic community and eventually, with the community-at-large.
In 5 years, she hopes to see collaborative care continue to grow in practice and to be more widely accepted and utilized as the standard of care so that everyone that needs psychiatric care can access it.