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Question: What are the experiences of military nurses regarding ethical decision-making during war or humanitarian crisis?<\/jats:p>\n                  <\/jats:sec>\n                  <jats:sec>\n                    <jats:title>Design<\/jats:title>\n                    <jats:p>A qualitative, interpretive, \u2018Big Q\u2019 design analysed through reflexive thematic analysis was used.<\/jats:p>\n                  <\/jats:sec>\n                  <jats:sec>\n                    <jats:title>Participants<\/jats:title>\n                    <jats:p>Thirty United Kingdom military nurses with operational experience in combat or humanitarian missions, serving or retired, were purposively recruited.<\/jats:p>\n                  <\/jats:sec>\n                  <jats:sec>\n                    <jats:title>Ethics<\/jats:title>\n                    <jats:p>Ethical approval was obtained from both the Ministry of Defence Research Ethics Committee (1009\/MODREC\/19) and the University of Birmingham Research Ethics Committee (ERN_17-1414). All participants gave informed consent and interviews were anonymised.<\/jats:p>\n                  <\/jats:sec>\n                  <jats:sec>\n                    <jats:title>Results<\/jats:title>\n                    <jats:p>Two themes were developed: \u2018Doing the Right Thing\u2019, with one sub theme \u2018Professional Codes and Guidelines as Ethical Handrails\u2019, and \u2018The Deployed Context\u2019.<\/jats:p>\n                  <\/jats:sec>\n                  <jats:sec>\n                    <jats:title>Conclusion<\/jats:title>\n                    <jats:p>The findings show how military nurses try and do the ethically right thing, but situational constraints are, perhaps, significantly different to non-military nursing making ethical decision-making especially complex. 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