Julie Moon

Olga is a nurse, a veteran of the United States Air Force, and an educator. She specializes in leadership for healthcare workers with a focus on quality improvement and systems that help humans thrive. She works with the Commission for the Accreditation of Birth Centers, performs Sentinel Event reviews and and helped write the 2016 edition of the Standards for Birth Centers. As a sister and mother of firefighter/paramedics, she really enjoys teaching and partnering with first responders in training for birth and newborn response. Teaching midwives and medics together feels incredibly important for improvement of teamwork and decreasing safety errors that mothers and babies can experience in pre-hospital care. In her recreational life, Olga loves to read and host game nights with her family.

Julie is a CNM and NRP Instructor Mentor who has been teaching NRP since 2001. She started in EMS, and has a Bachelor’s in Nursing and Master’s in Midwifery. Julie owns Midwives Untethered, and teaches midwives, birth workers, and EMS across the country. She teaches for Paramedic academies, provides education for local city and volunteer departments, writes and collaborates on content at the national level to help guide collaboration of midwives and EMS, and speaks at EMS conferences. She works to make the care, transfer and transport of birthing families seamless by working with EMS and midwives to develop skills and protocols. Julie is passionate about helping to provide birth and resuscitation education to help make birth a safe experience for the family and the care providers involved.