epstein, irisNguyen, JadeBalaquiao, LorivieChang, Kai Ya2021-03-042021-03-042019-01Journal of Nursing Education and Practice, Vol. 9, No. 1, January 20191925-4040https://doi.org/10.5430/jnep.v9n1p78http://hdl.handle.net/10315/38127Objective: With the ever-changing smartphone healthcare technology also comes nurses’ responsibilities to recognize its ethical implications particularly among vulnerable population. The aim of this paper is to explore what we know about the use of smartphone to access health care among refugees and new immigrants. Methods: We were guided by Walker and Avant (2011) concept analysis methodology. Concept analysis is a rigorous method to better understand ethical implications, meaning, attributes, antecedents and consequences of smartphone access to health care. Diverse databases were included such as CINAHL, Journals@Ovid, ProQuest Nursing & Allied Health Source, ProQuest Psychology Journals, PsychINFO, ERIC, and Education Full Text. Results: The concept analysis retrieved 23 studies. Overarching themes included the physical (e.g. income, geographical location) and social (generation; access to regular internet; digital literacy; relationship with practitioners) that were attributed to refugee and new immigrant access to health care. Conclusions: Some of the ethical implication when using smartphone to access health care technology with refugees and new immigrants are discussed and the skills needed for nursing practice are identified and recommendations for nurse education and research are made.enCopyrights for articles are retained by the authors, with first publication rights granted to the journal/publisher. Authors have rights to reuse, republish, archive, and distribute their own articles after publication. The journal/publisher is not responsible for subsequent uses of the work. Authors shall permit the publisher to apply a DOI to their articles and to archive them in databases and indexes such as EBSCO, DOAJ, and ProQuest.Attribution-NoDerivatives 4.0 Internationalrefugeesmartphonehealth careethical implicationArticlehttp://www.sciedu.ca/journal/index.php/jnephttp://web.sciedu.ca/http://www.sciedupress.com/journal/index.php/jnep/article/view/13618/0