Abstract: When providing a smart phone based multi-patient worklist (SPWL), a smartphone application, or “app,” is provided for nurses or other healthcare providers to plan and coordinate the care of their assigned patients. The SPWL includes time-based and patient-based screens that allow a nurse to determine what needs to be done for a particular patient as well as what needs to be done at a particular time or time range for a group of patients. Navigation between different views, such as zooming in or out to different levels of detail granularity can be performed, e.g., via touchscreen or the like. Through the use of icons, the SPWL can provide optimizing information detail using limited screen space.