Nebraska Statutes 71-6502. In-home personalservices worker; qualifications
An in-home personal services worker:
Terms Used In Nebraska Statutes 71-6502
- Jurisdiction: (1) The legal authority of a court to hear and decide a case. Concurrent jurisdiction exists when two courts have simultaneous responsibility for the same case. (2) The geographic area over which the court has authority to decide cases.
- Person: shall include bodies politic and corporate, societies, communities, the public generally, individuals, partnerships, limited liability companies, joint-stock companies, and associations. See Nebraska Statutes 49-801
- State: when applied to different states of the United States shall be construed to extend to and include the District of Columbia and the several territories organized by Congress. See Nebraska Statutes 49-801
- Year: shall mean calendar year. See Nebraska Statutes 49-801
(1) Shall be at least eighteen years of age;
(2) Shall have good moral character;
(3) Shall not have been convicted of a crime under the laws of Nebraska or another jurisdiction, the penalty for which is imprisonment for a period of more than one year and which crime is rationally related to the person‘s fitness or capacity to act as an in-home personal services worker;
(4) Shall have no adverse findings on the Adult Protective Services Central Registry, the central registry created in section 28-718, the Medication Aide Registry, the Nurse Aide Registry, or the central registry maintained by the sex offender registration and community notification division of the Nebraska State Patrol pursuant to section 29-4004 ;
(5) Shall be able to speak and understand the English language or the language of the person for whom he or she is providing in-home personal services; and
(6) Shall have training sufficient to provide the requisite level of in-home personal services offered.