Curtis Olson is a nurse and educator with experience in EMS and in urban and rural hospital emergency departments. He is currently the Trauma Outreach and Injury Prevention Coordinator at a level II trauma center in Lincoln, Nebraska. His previous nursing experience includes roles as a night shift E/R nurse at a Lincoln hospital and at a critical access hospital in Wahoo, Nebraska.

Olson’s emergency medical services experience includes a year as a paramedic-firefighter with Lincoln Fire & Rescue, and three years as a volunteer EMT with the Bethesda-Chevy Chase Rescue Squad in the Maryland suburbs of Washington, DC.

He has degrees in nursing (Diploma 2003/BSN 2010) and English literature (1985). He completed Paramedic certification training at Creighton University in 1998. He successfully passed the Certified Emergency Nurse exam in 2007 and the Trauma Certified Registered Nurse exam in 2023.