
Tracey Forward
Community Mental Health Services - Auckland District Health Board
Bio: Tracey is a nurse practitioner with more than 25 years’ experience in mental health nursing, having worked in community, inpatient, crisis and liaison psychiatry settings. Her current role is as a nurse practitioner in the primary secondary interface running primary mental health clinics and offering assessment/brief intervention to secondary mental health clients.
Her topics include:
• Screening for mental health issues in a general setting
• Assessment of risk to self: self-harm and suicide
• Common medical issues in the psychiatric population
• Obsessive compulsive disorder