Curtis Olson BSN, BA, RN, NRAEMT, CEN

Curtis Olson is an emergency department nurse at CHI Health – St. Elizabeth in Lincoln, Nebraska. He has degrees in nursing (Diploma 2003/BSN 2010) and literature (1985). He has worked in the E/R as a nurse since 2004. He has also worked as a nurse in the hospital’s regional burn center. His emergency medical services experience includes a year as a paramedic-firefighter with Lincoln Fire & Rescue, and two years as a volunteer EMT-B with the Bethesda-Chevy Chase Rescue Squad in the Maryland suburbs of Washington, DC. He has taught extensively on emergency and medical topics to citizen and workplace responders, nurses, and EMS providers at national, regional, and state conferences, including lectures at four national Emergency Nurses Association conferences. He has also worked as a writer, editor, bookstore manager, and coffee shop barista.