173 Neb. Admin. Code, ch. 6, § 002
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.
173 Neb. Admin. Code, ch. 6, § 002