Request for Public Comment: 30-Day; Proposed Collection: IHS Registered Nurses Recruitment and Retention Survey

[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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