Lisa Adams Wolf is Associate Professor, Elaine Marieb College of Nursing at UMass Amherst, and Director, Emergency Nursing Research at the Emergency Nurses Association. She has 20 years’ experience in education and research, and almost 30 years as a clinician. She notes that research is by its nature a disruptive process that challenges social assumptions, and would ask that you formulate research questions appropriately.

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