Nebraska Administrative Code
Topic - HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES SYSTEM
Title 471 - NEBRASKA MEDICAL ASSISTANCE PROGRAM SERVICES
Chapter 9 - HOME HEALTH AGENCIES AND SKILLED NURSING SERVICES
Section 471-9-002 - DEFINITIONS
Current through September 17, 2024
The following definitions apply:
002.01 ADVANCED DIRECTIVE. A legal document, including, but not limited to, a living will, signed by a competent person, to provide guidance for medical and health-care decisions in the event the client becomes incapable to make such decisions.
002.02 HOME HEALTH AGENCY. A person or any legal entity which provides skilled nursing or minimum of one other therapeutic service as defined by the Department on a full-time, part-time, or intermittent basis to person in a place of temporary or permanent residence used as a the person's home.
002.03 HOME HEALTH SERVICES. Services provided to a client in the client's place of residence. The residence does not include a hospital, skilled nursing facility, or nursing facility. A nurse practitioner, physician assistant, or clinical nurse specialist are able to order home health services.
002.04 SKILLED NURSING SERVICE. Skilled nursing services are those services provided by a private duty nurse (PDN) or a nurse employed by a home health agency in a client's home or current living arrangement. Skilled nursing services do not include services provided in a hospital, skilled nursing facility, or nursing facility.
