[Federal Register Volume 89, Number 46 (Thursday, March 7, 2024)]
[Notices]
[Pages 16584-16585]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2024-04848]
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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES
Health Resources and Services Administration
Agency Information Collection Activities: Submission to OMB for
Review and Approval; Public Comment Request; Information Collection
Request Title: Advanced Nursing Education Program Specific Form OMB No.
0915-0375--Revision
AGENCY: Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA), Department
of Health and Human Services.
ACTION: Notice.
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SUMMARY: In compliance with the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995, HRSA
submitted an Information Collection Request (ICR) to the Office of
Management and Budget (OMB) for review and approval. Comments submitted
during the first public review of this ICR will be provided to OMB. OMB
will accept further comments from the public during the review and
approval period. OMB may act on HRSA's ICR only after the 30-day
comment period for this notice has closed.
DATES: Comments on this ICR should be received no later than April 8,
2024.
ADDRESSES: Written comments and recommendations for the proposed
information collection should be sent within 30 days of publication of
this notice to www.reginfo.gov/public/do/PRAMain. Find this particular
information collection by selecting ``Currently under Review--Open for
Public Comments'' or by using the search function.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: To request a copy of the clearance
requests submitted to OMB for review, email Joella Roland, the HRSA
Information Collection Clearance Officer, at [email protected] or call
(301) 443-3983.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
Information Collection Request Title: Advanced Nursing Education
(ANE) Program Specific Form OMB No. 0915-0375--Revision.
Abstract: HRSA provides advanced nursing education grants to
educational institutions to increase the supply, distribution, quality
of, and access to advanced education nurses through the ANE Programs.
The ANE Programs are authorized by section 811 of the Public Health
Service Act (42 U.S.C. 296j), as amended. This clearance request is for
continued approval of the information collection OMB No. 0915-0375 with
revisions. This revision request seeks to add the ANE-Nurse
Practitioner Residency and Fellowship Program and the Maternity Care
Nursing Workforce Expansion Program to the ANE Program Specific Form,
and to remove programs that have closed, which include the ANE-Nurse
Practitioner Residency Program and the ANE-Nurse Practitioner Residency
Integration Program. The activities previously supported under the ANE
Nurse Practitioner Residency Program and the ANE-Nurse Practitioner
Residency Integration Program are now supported under the ANE-Nurse
Practitioner Residency and Fellowship Program.
A 60-day notice published in the Federal Register on December 28,
2023, 88 FR 89709-10. There were no public comments.
Need and Proposed Use of the Information: Section 811 of the Public
Health Service Act provides the Secretary of Health and Human Services
with the authority to award grants to and enter into contracts with
eligible entities to meet the costs of: (1) projects that support the
enhancement of advanced nursing education and practice; and (2)
traineeships for individuals in advanced nursing education programs.
Under this section, HRSA makes awards to entities who train and support
nurses characterized as ``advanced education nurses.'' In awarding such
grants, funding preference is given to applicants with projects that
will substantially benefit rural or underserved populations, or help
meet public health nursing needs in state or local health departments;
special consideration is given to an eligible entity that agrees to
extend the award to train advanced education nurses who will practice
in designated Health Professional Shortage Areas.
The ANE Program Specific Form allows HRSA to effectively target
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funding and measure the impact of the ANE Programs in meeting the
legislative intent and program goals of supporting the enhancement of
advanced nursing education and creating opportunities for individuals
in advanced nursing education programs to increase the number of
advanced practice nurses, especially in rural and underserved areas.
Additionally, collecting this data assists HRSA in carrying out the
most impactful program and ensuring resources are used responsibly. The
proposed updates to this information collection are to accurately list
the current ANE Programs.
Likely Respondents: Likely respondents will be current ANE Programs
awardees and new applicants to ANE Programs.
Burden Statement: Burden in this context means the time expended by
persons to generate, maintain, retain, disclose, or provide the
information requested. This includes the time needed to review
instructions; to develop, acquire, install, and utilize technology and
systems for the purpose of collecting, validating, and verifying
information, processing and maintaining information, and disclosing and
providing information; to train personnel and to be able to respond to
a collection of information; to search data sources; to complete and
review the collection of information; and to transmit or otherwise
disclose the information. The total annual burden hours estimated for
this ICR are summarized in the table below.
Total Estimated Annualized Burden Hours:
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Form name (includes the ANE Number of Average burden
program specific tables and Number of responses per Total per response Total burden
attachments) respondents respondent responses (in hours) hours
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Advanced Nursing Education 156 1 156 7 1,092
Workforce......................
Nurse Anesthetist Traineeship... 64 1 64 7 448
ANE--Sexual Assault Nurse 54 1 54 7 378
Examiners......................
ANE--Nurse Practitioner 64 1 64 7 448
Residency and Fellowship.......
Maternity Care Nursing Workforce 10 1 10 7 70
Expansion......................
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Total....................... 348 .............. 348 .............. 2,436
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Maria G. Button,
Director, Executive Secretariat.
[FR Doc. 2024-04848 Filed 3-6-24; 8:45 am]
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