Statute 71 6039 01

71-6039.01. Paid dining assistant; qualifications.No person shall act as a paid dining assistant in a nursing home unless such person:(1) Is at least sixteen years of age;(2) Is able to speak and understand the English language or a language understood by the nursing home resident being fed by such person;(3) Has successfully completed at least eight hours of training as prescribed by the department for paid dining assistants;(4) Has no adverse findings on the Nurse Aide Registry or the Adult Protective Services Central Registry; and(5) Has no adverse findings on the central registry created in section 28-718 if the nursing home which employs such person as a paid dining assistant has at any one time more than one resident under the age of nineteen years.Source Laws 2004, LB 1005, § 115; Laws 2014, LB853, § 47.