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Form
	Approved
	OMB
	No. 0920-1290 
	
				Exp.
	Date: 09/30/2020 
	
	www.cdc.gov/nhsn
COVID-19 Module
Healthcare
Worker Staffing
Facility
ID #: _____________
Summary
Census ID #: _________
*Date
for which counts are reported:
____/____/________
Does
your organization have an urgent shortage or will have an impending
shortage within a week?
	
	
	
	
		| 
			CRITICAL
			STAFFING SHORTAGE TODAY:  Does
			your organization consider that it has a critical staffing
			shortage in this group today? | 
			CRITICAL
			STAFFING SHORTAGE WITHIN A WEEK: 
			 Does
			your organization anticipate that it will have a critical staffing
			shortage in this group within one week? | 
			Healthcare
			worker staff groups | 
	
		| 
			[Yes/No] | 
			[Yes/No] | 
			Environmental
			services | 
	
		| 
			[Yes/No] | 
			[Yes/No] | 
			Nurses:
			registered nurses and licensed practical nurses | 
	
		| 
			[Yes/No] | 
			[Yes/No] | 
			Respiratory
			therapists | 
	
		| 
			[Yes/No] | 
			[Yes/No] | 
			Pharmacists
			and pharmacy techs | 
	
		| 
			[Yes/No] | 
			[Yes/No] | 
			Physicians:
			attending physicians, fellows | 
	
		| 
			[Yes/No] | 
			[Yes/No] | 
			Other
			licensed independent practitioners:
			advanced practice nurses, physician assistants | 
	
		| 
			[Yes/No] | 
			[Yes/No] | 
			Temporary
			physicians, nurses, respiratory therapists, and pharmacists
			(“per diems,” “travelers,” retired, or
			other seasonal or intermittently contracted persons) | 
	
		| 
			[Yes/No] If
			yes, specify: What are the
			other groups not included in the above for which your facility has
			a critical staffing shortage? | 
			[Yes/No] If
			yes, specify: What are the
			other groups not included in the above for which your facility
			anticipates a critical staffing shortage? 
			 | 
			Other
			HCP†
			(Persons who work in the facility, regardless of clinical
			responsibility or patient contact not included in categories
			above.) 
 †Healthcare
			Personnel (HCP) is the plural of healthcare worker | 
	
		| 
			Assurance
			of Confidentiality:  The voluntarily provided information obtained
			in this surveillance system that would permit identification of
			any individual or institution is collected with a guarantee that
			it will be held in strict confidence, will be used only for the
			purposes stated, and will not otherwise be disclosed or released
			without the consent of the individual, or the institution in
			accordance with Sections 304, 306 and 308(d) of the Public Health
			Service Act (42 USC 242b, 242k, and 242m(d)). 
 CDC
			estimates the average public reporting burden for this collection
			of information as 25 minutes per response, including the time for
			reviewing instructions, searching existing data/information
			sources, gathering and maintaining the data/information needed,
			and completing and reviewing the collection of information. An
			agency may not conduct or sponsor, and a person is not required to
			respond to a collection of information unless it displays a
			currently valid OMB control number. Send comments regarding this
			burden estimate or any other aspect of this collection of
			information, including suggestions for reducing this burden to
			CDC/ATSDR Information Collection Review Office, 1600 Clifton Road
			NE, MS D-74, Atlanta, Georgia 30333; ATTN: PRA (0920-1290).   
			 CDC
			57.131 (Front) | 
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| File Type | application/vnd.openxmlformats-officedocument.wordprocessingml.document | 
| Author | Wattenmaker, Lauren (CDC/DDID/NCEZID/DHQP) | 
| File Modified | 0000-00-00 | 
| File Created | 2021-01-14 |