Sharon Sinia Anae

Sharon Sinia-Anae is a Registered Nurse of six years. She is one of two Registered Nurses that is co-leading the Mobile Nursing Services (Home-visiting team) under Southseas Healthcare.

She is of Samoan descent, born-raised and still residing in Mangere South Auckland. She comes from a family of six and is the second eldest of four children.

Four and a half of those years I had worked as a school nurse providing health care to school kids from the ages of 5-18 years. As much as I enjoyed working with youth, I also wanted to challenge myself by gaining more clinical experience and knowledge in other fields therefore had joined Southseas Healthcare in April 2021 working as a COVID-19 vaccinator at the former Otara Pacific-Locality Vaccination and then became clinical lead in December 2021 until September 2022. Although she comes from a family line of Registered Nurses and other health professional. Nursing was not a passion to begin for Sharon but over the years of studying to become a Registered Nurse, she found a passion in serving for our community in South Auckland. Nursing opened her eyes to many effects of health especially for our Pacific people giving her the opportunity to contribute to our community through providing quality health care and minimizing health disparities in the community. Her greatest joy yet is developing the rapport with our people at their homes, being introduced into their lives allowing them to teach her the language and more about our Pacific Island culture. By developing positive relationships with our families, we are more likely to work more collaboratively with the community to achieve better health outcomes for our people, so they can live more abundantly.