48-4102. Terms, defined.
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For purposes of the Health Care Staffing Agency Registration Act:
(1)Commissioner means the Commissioner of Labor;
(2)Department means the Department of Labor;
(3)(a) Direct services means nursing services or other services provided to consumers through person-to-person contact; and
(b)Direct services does not mean:
(i)Services performed by an individual in a health care entity that do not involve the provision of any direct service to a consumer of a health care entity;
(ii)The practice of medicine and surgery or osteopathic medicine and surgery by an individual licensed under the Medicine and Surgery Practice Act; or
(iii)The practice of nursing by a nurse practitioner licensed under the Nurse Practitioner Practice Act;
(4)Health care entity means a health care facility or a health care service;
(5)Health care facility has the same meaning as in section 71-413 ;
(6)Health care service has the same meaning as in section 71-415 ;
(7)Health care staffing agency means an individual, a trust, a partnership, a corporation, a limited liability partnership, a limited liability company, or any other business entity that provides one or more temporary workers to provide direct services in a separate, third-party health care entity. Health care staffing agency includes a health care technology platform;
(8)Health care technology platform means an individual, a trust, a partnership, a corporation, a limited liability partnership, a limited liability company, or any other business entity that developed and operates, offers, or maintains a system or technology that provides a marketplace, by means of the Internet or a software application, which allows
(a)a worker, in the sole discretion of such worker, to choose when and how often to utilize the platform to bid on or select an open shift posted by a health care entity and
(b)a health care entity to set rates with the platform that can only be changed by a contractual amendment between the parties;
(9)(a) Nursing services means services that may be provided only by or under the supervision of a nurse; and
(b)Nursing services does not mean the practice of nursing by a nurse practitioner licensed under the Nurse Practitioner Practice Act; and
(10)Worker means an individual who contracts with or is employed by a health care staffing agency to provide direct services for a health care entity.