SNA-SC Consultants

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.

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.