Gannt chart nursing administration and management

1. GANTT CHARTS
Jagatap JM
Krishna institute of nursing
sciences, karad

2. GANTT CHARTS
• Early in this century Henry L. Gantt developed the Gantt Chart as a
means of controlling production. It depicted a series of events
essential to the completion of a project or program . It is usually used
for production activities.
• It could be applied to a project such as implementing a modality of
primary nursing or implementing case management.

3. Definition
• A chart in which a series of horizontal lines shows the amount of
work done in certain periods of time in relation to the amount
planned for those periods.

5. These are possible nursing actions for a project:
1. Gather data
2. Analyze data
3. Develop a plan
4. Implement the plan.
5. Evaluation, feedback, and modification

6. Need
Avoid Completion Confusion
Keep Everyone on the Same Page
Understand Task Relationships
Effectively Allocate Resources
Get a Handle on the Future

7. • Avoid Completion Confusion: Gantt charts were created to keep users on
track, providing a visual timeline for starting and finishing specific tasks.
By providing a visual overview of milestones and other key dates.
• Keep Everyone on the Same Page: Where there is a visual framework for
the work to be done, there are fewer chances for misunderstanding,
especially when it comes to highly complex tasks
• Understand Task Relationships: These charts can make clear how various
tasks are interrelated and perhaps rely on the completion of another to
meet specific objectives.
A Gantt charts makes it very easy to visualize related tasks

8. • Effectively Allocate Resources: The more closely the chart is
followed, the better chance there is of keeping project costs within
budget while also better assuring on-time completion.
• Get a Handle on the Future: Gantt chart advantages include
helping decision-makers look farther ahead to ensure each given
project is working toward the achievement the organization’s
long-term strategic objectives.

9. PROCESS
1. Identify the Purpose
2. Define the Project Timeline
3. Break the Project Down into Manageable Pieces
4. Create Progress Bars
5. Define the Critical Path
6. Add Milestone Markers

10. 1. Identify the Purpose - It is helpful to first decide whether this
is a project or a process, because diagramming a process
might work better with a flow chart.
2. Define the Project Timeline - Decide how to divide the
increments of time for the duration of the project. Each one should
have a start date, end date,

11. 4. Create Progress Bars -The next step is to create a progress bar for
each task. A progress bar is simply a horizontal bar that should be in
line with the task name it represents and should begin beneath its start
date and end beneath its end date

12. • 5. Define the Critical Path - What is a critical path? It is
a method of looking at all of the activities in the Gantt
chart, considering the timing and dependent
relationships of each, and calculating the longest path
from start to completion of the project.

13. • 6. Add Milestone Markers - Choose a symbol to represent milestones,
that is, major events that either have a large part in the process or
must be completed before progress can continue. Place them on the
chart beneath the date or time when they occur

15. Advantages
It helps in planning and monitoring the work of project
Time is explicitly expressed in the chart
All tasks are visibly at a glance in relation to other
Deadlines are depicted in the chart.

16. Limitation
Gantt charts, because of their success, form the most easy to use
and the most widely used scheduling tools. But these charts are
also accompanied with some limitation
In such charts, it is very necessary to keep on updating the charts,
in order to keep it in current form.
The charts is not able to directly reveal the costs of the alternate
loadings.

17. These charts also do not consider the varying processing times
among work centers.
Other limitations include the inability to include certain constraints
like time, scope, and costs.

18. Thank you