Nebraska Administrative Code › Topic - HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES SYSTEM › Title 173 - CONTROL OF COMMUNICABLE DISEASE › Chapter 6 - DIRECTED HEALTH MEASURES TO PREVENT OR LIMIT THE SPREAD OF COMMUNICABLE DISEASE, ILLNESS, OR POISONING › Section 173-6-002 - DEFINITIONS

Current through June 17, 2024
Chief Medical Officer
means the
				  state Chief Medical Officer appointed pursuant to
Neb. Rev.
				  Stat.
§
									81-3201, if
				  the Department Director is not a medical doctor.
Communicable disease, illness, or
				  poisoning
means an illness due to an infectious or malignant
				  agent, which is capable of being transmitted directly or indirectly to a person
				  from an infected person or animal through the agency of an intermediate animal,
				  host, or vector, or through the inanimate environment.
Decontamination
means the removal
				  or neutralizing of contaminating material, such as radioactive materials,
				  biological materials, or chemical agents, from a person or object to the extent
				  necessary to preclude the occurrence of foreseeable adverse health effects.
				  Decontamination includes remediation or destruction of sources of communicable
				  disease or biological, chemical, radiological, or nuclear agents.
Department
means the Department of
				  Health and Human Services Regulation and Licensure or its successor.
Directed Health Measure
means any
				  measure, whether prophylactic or remedial, intended and directed to prevent or
				  limit the spread of communicable disease or to prevent or limit public exposure
				  to or spread of biological, chemical, radiological, or nuclear agents.
Director
means the Director of
				  Regulation and Licensure, or a person acting on behalf of the Director as his
				  or her designee.
Health care facility
means any
				  facility licensed under the Health Care Facility Licensure Act, and such
				  additional clinics or facilities not licensed under that act as may be
				  identified in specific orders issued pursuant to 173 NAC 6.
Health care provider
means any
				  credentialed person regulated under the Advanced Practice Registered Nurse Act,
				  the Emergency Medical Services Act, the Licensed Practical Nurse-Certified Act,
				  the Nebraska Certified Nurse Midwifery Practice Act, the Nurse Practice Act,
				  the Occupational Therapy Practice Act, the Uniform Licensing Law, or
Neb. Rev. Stat.
§§
									71-3702 to
				  71-3715.
Isolation
means the separation of
				  people who have a specific communicable disease, illness, or poisoning from
				  healthy people and the restriction of their movement to stop the spread of that
				  disease, illness, or poison. In circumstances where animals are agents of
				  spread of communicable disease, illness, or poisoning, isolation may apply to
				  such animals.
Local public health department
means a local public health department as defined by
Neb. Rev.
				  Stat.
§
									71-1626
				  and its governing officials.
Municipality
means any City of the
				  Metropolitan class (see
Neb. Rev. Stat.
§
									14-101
				  ), Primary class (§
									15-101
				  ), First class (§
									16-101
				  ), Second class (§
									17-101
				  ), and Village (§
									17-201
				  ) and its governing officials.
Personal protective equipment (PPE)
means equipment ordered or used to protect an individual from communicable
				  disease, illness, or poisoning.
Premises
means land and any
				  structures upon it.
Public health authority
means any
				  individual or entity charged by law with a duty or authority to enforce or
				  carry out a public health function.
Quarantine
directed to identified
				  individuals or defined populations means the restriction of, or conditions
				  upon, the movement and activities of people who are not yet ill, but who have
				  been or may have been exposed to an agent of communicable disease, illness, or
				  poisoning and are therefore potentially capable of communicating a disease,
				  illness, or poison. The purpose is to prevent or limit the spread of
				  communicable disease, illness, or poison. Quarantine of individuals or defined
				  populations generally involves the separation of the quarantined from the
				  general population. In circumstances where animals are agents of spread of
				  communicable disease, illness, or poisoning, quarantine may apply to such
				  animals.
Quarantine officer
means the
				  statutorily established quarantine officer for a municipality or county,
				  usually the chief executive or top law enforcement officer.
Quarantine of premises
means
				  restriction of the movement of all people and animals upon, into, or out from
				  those premises to prevent or limit the spread of communicable disease or
				  illness or to prevent or limit public exposure to or spread of biological,
				  chemical, radiological, or nuclear agents.