SNA-SC Professional Consultant
University of South Carolina
Term of Service 2024-2026
SNA-SC Executive Consultant
Greenville Technical College
Term of Service 2025-2027
Savannah Perschke is a certified pediatric emergency and trauma nurse in the Children's Emergency Center at Greenville Memorial Hospital. Originally from Wisconsin, she received her BSN from the University of Wisconsin-Oshkosh. She began her nursing career as an emergency room nurse in an urban mixed-population emergency department in Milwaukee, WI, until accepting her current job and moving to Greenville, SC, in 2019. Savannah also serves as a forensic nurse for Prisma Health Upstate. She is a dual-certified sexual assault nurse examiner (SANE-A/P) and cares for adult, adolescent, and pediatric sexual assault patients. Savannah continued her education by pursuing a graduate degree from Clemson University, graduating in 2022. Shortly after receiving her MS in nursing education, she began teaching as adjunct faculty at Greenville Technical College. She primarily assists with pediatric nursing clinicals, labs, and simulation. Savannah is the current President-Elect for the South Carolina Emergency Nurses Association (ENA) and president of the local ENA chapter. Savannah also dedicates her time and passion by volunteering as a guardian ad litem with the Greenville County Child Advocacy Center.
SNA-SC Executive Consultant
Central Carolina Technical College
Term of Service 2025-2027
Sylvia Christian-James, DNP, MSN-Ed, RN, is a Central Carolina Technical College nurse educator in the Associate Degree Nursing program. Her nursing career spans four decades and includes leadership in acute care facilities and the community. A few of her accomplishments include being the recipient of the NISOD Excellence Award in Education, the Palmetto Gold Award in Nursing, the South Carolina Department of Mental Health Board Member of the Year, the Women of Excellence Award for Sumter County, and an inductee in the CPI Instructors Hall of Fame. Her interests include advancing the nursing profession through the professional nursing sorority Chi Eta Phi, reading, and walking with her fur babies. She is a member of SCNA, APNA, Sigma Theta Tau, and Jehovah Missionary Baptist Church. She has two adult children, which she views as her proudest accomplishment. To Dr. Christian-James, serving the SNA-SC is considered an honor.
Interested in being a Professional Consultant?
Do you have a passion for helping the future leaders of the nursing profession?
Are you excited by the idea of being a mentor to current student nurse leaders?
Then being a professional consultant for the SNA-SC Executive Board might be your next step to achieving that goal!
The roles of the profession consultant are as follows:
10.1 There shall be a council of consultants. The council shall consist of at least two (2) professional consultants but no more than three (3) and at least one (1) executive consultant that will be recommended by the previous Executive Board and appointed by the newly elected Executive Board.
10.1-1 The consultants will attend a minimum of four (4) meetings annually, review board minutes monthly, be familiar with the functions of the organization, and be available as a resource to make appointments with Executive Board Members, as needed.
10.1-2 The professional consultants shall be instructors or administrators in a state approved school of nursing. The new professional consultants shall be appointed for two (2) Executive Board terms with the option of reappointment at the end of each term, alternating such that there is a one-year overlap between consultants. The appointing of a new professional consultant shall take place no later than the first Executive Board meeting following the Annual SNA-SC State Convention.
10.1-3 The council shall:
(a) Serve as a resource by counseling and advising officers, committees and members.
(b) Attend MidYear Conference and Annual Convention, as well as a minimum of one (1) board meeting every semester.
(c) Maintain channels of communication with consultants of constituent student associations.
(d) Travel expenses for the council for the monthly meetings of the board shall be paid by SNA-SC. In the event that two or more executive officers or council members are traveling together, travel expenses shall be paid only to one individual.
(f) Be an NSNA sustaining member and an ANA member, to be paid by SNA-SC.
Applications are reviewed annually at the first board meeting after an election.
Please send any questions to president@SNA-SC.org
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