{"data":{"id":"us-ne/neb.-rev.-stat.-48-4102","jurisdiction":"us-ne","citation":"Neb. Rev. Stat. § 48-4102","heading":"Terms, defined.","body":"For purposes of the Health Care Staffing Agency Registration Act:\n(1) Commissioner means the Commissioner of Labor;\n(2) Department means the Department of Labor;\n(3)(a) Direct services means nursing services or other services provided to consumers through person-to-person contact; and\n(b) Direct services does not mean:\n(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;\n(ii) The practice of medicine and surgery or osteopathic medicine and surgery by an individual licensed under the Medicine and Surgery Practice Act; or\n(iii) The practice of nursing by a nurse practitioner licensed under the Nurse Practitioner Practice Act;\n(4) Health care entity means a health care facility or a health care service;\n(5) Health care facility has the same meaning as in section 71-413;\n(6) Health care service has the same meaning as in section 71-415;\n(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;\n(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;\n(9)(a) Nursing services means services that may be provided only by or under the supervision of a nurse; and\n(b) Nursing services does not mean the practice of nursing by a nurse practitioner licensed under the Nurse Practitioner Practice Act; and\n(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.","path":["Chapter 48 - LABOR"],"source_url":"https://nebraskalegislature.gov/laws/statutes.php?statute=48-4102","current_through":"Laws 2026","vintage":"","retrieved_at":"2026-09-17T21:01:11Z","sha256":"c59d40b9ab635fa56aa6a819952edaed61dabbb213609dc211ee73e8792bceb7","source_id":"us-ne","stale":false,"prev":"us-ne/neb.-rev.-stat.-48-4101","next":"us-ne/neb.-rev.-stat.-48-4103"},"notice":"GroundRules: Original legal text. Not legal advice."}