Nursing pools definition
Nursing pools means any person, firm, corporation, partnership, or association engaged for hire in the business of providing or procuring temporary employment in health-care facilities for medical personnel including, but not limited to, nurses, nursing assistants, nurses' aides, and orderlies. For purposes of KRS 216.865, nursing registries shall be considered to be nursing pools. Excluded from this definition are any health-facility-based or in-house pools established to provide services within the confines of such facility or business, any person who only engages in providing his or her own services on a temporary basis to health-care facilities, and home-health agencies licensed pursuant to KRS Chapter 216B which provide or procure temporary employment in health-care facilities for medical personnel.