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

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, 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: Employment Sites of Nursing Graduates Supported

by the Professional Nurse Traineeship Program: New

Under Section 830 of Title VIII of the Public Health Service Act,

Professional Nurse Traineeship (PNT) grants are awarded to eligible

institutions for the support of students in advanced nursing education.

Traineeships are then awarded by the institutions to individuals

enrolled in graduate programs to prepare for practice as advanced

practice nurses. These funds are distributed to institutions based on a

formula that incorporates three statutory funding factors. The factor

to be studied is the funding preference which is given to institutions

that can demonstrate either a high rate of placing graduates in

medically underserved communities (MUCs), or achieving a significant

increase in the rate of placing graduates in such settings.

This study is intended to assess the influence of funding

preference on program performance and to determine program success in

placing PNT graduates in MUCs. Approximately 5,000 graduates who

received Master's or Doctoral degrees in academic years 1996-1997 and

1997-1998, including 1,200 who received PNT funds but were not

graduates of the schools receiving the preference, will be included in

this survey. Data will be obtained on the graduates place of residence

and place

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of employment before, during and after their program of study. The

study will examine various measures associated with the career paths

chosen by these graduates and by comparing these measures within and

between the two groups of graduates. Comparisons of employment sites of

graduates in schools receiving the preference with those of graduates

in schools not receiving the preference will indicate the significance

of funding preference in promoting program objectives of increasing

access to care in underserved communities. Information on both the

nursing-specialty of graduates and their current employment setting

will be analyzed for each of the two groups.

The estimated burden is as follows:

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Number of Responses per Hours per Total burden

Form respondents respondent response hours

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Nurses.......................................... 4000 1 20 (in 1320

minutes)

Ineligible nurses............................... 37 1 5 (in minutes) 4

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Total....................................... 4037 .............. .............. 1324

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Written comments and recommendations concerning the proposed

information collection should be sent within 30 days of this notice to:

Wendy A. Taylor, Human Resources and Housing Branch, Office of

Management and Budget, New Executive Office Building, Room 10235,

Washington, DC 20503.

Dated: November 10, 1999.

Jane Harrison,

Director, Division of Policy Review and Coordination.

[FR Doc. 99-30082 Filed 11-17-99; 8:45 am]

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