[Federal Register Volume 64, Number 127 (Friday, July 2, 1999)]
[Notices]
[Pages 36022-36023]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 99-16838]
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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES
Indian Health Service
Request for Public Comment: 30-Day; Proposed Collection: IHS
Registered Nurses Recruitment and Retention Survey
SUMMARY: In compliance with section 3506(c)(2)(A) of the Paperwork
Reduction Act of 1995, the Indian Health Service (IHS) provided an
opportunity for public comment on the proposed agency information
collection project. A notice was previously published in the Federal
Register on December 24, 1998 (63 FR 71297), and 60 days were allowed
for public comment. No public comment was received in response to the
notice. As required by section 3507(a)(1)(D) of the Act, the proposed
information collection has been submitted to the Office of Management
and Budget (OMB) for review. The purpose of this notice is to allow an
additional 30 days for public comment to be submitted directly to the
OMB.
PROPOSED COLLECTION: Title: 09-17-0000, ``IHS Registered Nurses
Recruitment and Retention Survey.'' Type of Information Collection
Request: New collection. Form Number: No reporting forms required. Need
and Use of Information Collection: The information collected in the
proposed survey will be used to determine which improvements made since
1984 have worked and what additional changes need to be made to
continue to attract and retain registered nurses in the IHS, tribal,
and urban (I/T/U) programs. The information collected in the survey
will help to determine (1) the factors that lead to the initial
decision to work in the Indian health program; (2) what aspects of the
job do/did these employees like or dislike and why; (3) how
environmental and personal factors, such as living on or near
reservations, local or government housing, distance to shopping,
schools (pre-school, elementary, and high school), social activities,
child care facilities, location and size of non-Indian community, sex
and race differences, etc., affect their decision to continue with or
terminate IHS employment; and (4) how work-related issues and current
changes, such as Indian preference, quality of other health care staff,
local health care management practices, managed care, tribal self-
governance and self-determination, etc., affect their decision to stay
with or leave IHS employment. Affected Public: Individuals. Type of
Respondents: Current I/T/U registered nurses.
Table 1 below provides the following information: types of data
collection instruments, estimated number of respondents, number of
responses per respondent, average burden hour per response, and total
annual burden hour.
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Table 1
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Estimated Average burden
Data collection instrument number of Responses per Annual number hour per Total annual
respondents respondent of responses response* burden hours
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Nursing Survey..................................................... 600 1 600 1.00 (60 min) 600
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* For ease of understanding, burden hours are also provided in actual minutes.
There are no capital costs, operating costs, or maintenance costs
to report.
REQUEST FOR COMMENTS: Your written comments and/or suggestions are
invited on one or more of the following points: (1) Whether the
information collection activity is necessary to carry out an agency
function; (2) whether the agency processes the information collected in
a useful and timely fashion; (3) the accuracy of the public burden
estimate (the estimated amount of time needed for individual
respondents to provide the requested information); (4) whether the
methodology and assumptions used to determine the estimate are logical;
(5) ways to enhance the quality, utility, and clarity of the
information being collected; and (6) ways to minimize the public burden
through the use of automated, electronic, mechanical, or other
technological collection techniques or other forms of information
technology.
DIRECT COMMENTS TO OMB: Send your written comments and suggestions
regarding the proposed information collection contained in this notice,
especially regarding the estimated public burden and associated
response time, to: Office of Management and Budget, Office of
Regulatory Affairs, New Executive Office Building, Room 10235,
Washington, DC 20503, Attention: Desk Officer for IHS.
To request information on the proposed collection or to obtain a
copy of the data collection instrument(s) and/or instruction(s),
contact: Mr. Lance Hodahkwen, Sr., M.P.H., IHS Reports Clearance
Officer, 12300 Twinbrook Parkway, Suite 450, Rockville, MD 20852-1601,
call non-toll free (301) 443-5938 or send via fax to (301) 443-2316, or
send your e-mail requests, comments, and return address to:
ihodahkw@hqe.ihs.gov.
COMMENT DUE DATE: Comments regarding this information collection are
best assured of having their full effect if received on or before
August 2, 1999.
Dated: June 22, 1999.
Michel E. Lincoln,
Acting Director.
[FR Doc. 99-16838 Filed 7-1-99; 8:45 am]
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