[Federal Register Volume 73, Number 44 (Wednesday, March 5, 2008)]
[Notices]
[Pages 11929-11930]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: E8-4269]


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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES

Health Resources and Services Administration


Agency Information Collection Activities: Submission for OMB 
Review; Comment Request

    Periodically, the Health Resources and Services Administration 
(HRSA) publishes abstracts of information collection requests under 
review by the Office of Management and Budget (OMB), in compliance with 
the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995 (44 U.S.C. Chapter 35). To request 
a copy of the clearance requests submitted to OMB for review, call the 
HRSA Reports Clearance Office on (301) 443-1129.
    The following request has been submitted to the Office of 
Management and Budget for review under the Paperwork Reduction Act of 
1995:

Proposed Project: The National Sample Survey of Registered Nurses 2008 
(OMB No. 0915-0276)--Reinstatement With Change

    The National Sample Survey of Registered Nurses (NSSRN) is carried 
out to assist in fulfilling the Congressional mandate of Section 806(f) 
of the Public Health Service Act (42 U.S.C. 296e) which requires that 
discipline-specific workforce information and analytical activities are 
carried out as part of the advanced nursing education, workforce 
diversity, and basic nursing education and practice programs.
    Government agencies, legislative bodies and health professionals 
used data from previous national sample surveys of registered nurses to 
inform workforce policies. The information from this survey will 
continue to serve policy makers, and other consumers. The data 
collected in this survey will provide information on employment status 
of registered nurses (RNs), the setting in which they are employed and 
the proportion of RNs who are employed either full-time and part-time 
in nursing. The data will also indicate the number of RNs who are 
employed in jobs unrelated to nursing.
    The proposed survey design for the 2008 NSSRN updates that of the 
previous eight surveys. A probability sample is selected from a 
sampling frame compiled from files provided by the State Boards of 
Nursing in the 50 States and the District of Columbia. These files 
constitute a multiple sampling frame of all RNs licensed in the 50 
States and the District of Columbia. Sampling rates are set for each 
State based on considerations of statistical precision of the estimates 
and the costs involved in obtaining reliable national and State-level 
estimates.
    Each sampled nurse will be asked to complete a self-administered 
questionnaire, which includes items on educational background, duties, 
employment status and setting, geographic mobility, and income. An 
electronic version was offered in the 2004 survey and will be again 
considered as a mode for response.
    Estimated burden is as follows:

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                                                               Responses                                Total
                      Form                        Number of       per         Total      Hours per      burden
                                                 respondents   respondent   responses     response      hours
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Nursing Survey.................................       39,984            1       39,984          .33       13,195
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    Written comments and recommendations concerning the proposed 
information collection should be sent within 30 days of this notice to 
the desk officer for HRSA, either by e-mail to [email protected] or by fax to 202-395-6974. Please direct all 
correspondence to the ``attention of the desk officer for HRSA.''


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    Dated: February 28, 2008.
Alexandra Huttinger,
Director, Division of Policy Review and Coordination.
[FR Doc. E8-4269 Filed 3-4-08; 8:45 am]
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