Funeral Practitioner - Pittsburgh Institute of Mortuary Science
Hybrid-based
ONET: 39-4031.00
2
Years
31
Skills
1530h
Related instructions
2000h
On-the-job training
Classroom instruction topics
- Human Anatomy
- Business Law
- Strategies for Success
- Business Mathematics / Computer Applications
- Embalming Orientation
- Ethics
- General Psychology
- Microbiology
- Thanatology: A Sociocultural and Historical Perspective
- Financial Accounting
- Regulatory Compliance
- Communication Skills
- Embalming I
- Funeral Management I
- Pathology I
- Restorative Art Principles
- Restorative Art Laboratory
- Cremation Principles and Practices
- Embalming II
- Funeral Management II
- Funeral Service Law
- Pathology II
- Professional Seminar Series
- Psychology of Grief and Counseling
- Small Business Management
- Environmental Health
- Human Resource Management
- Psychology of Death
- Social Pscyhology
- World Religions in America
- English Composition
- Contemporary Professional Issues
- Death and Children
- Elements of Economics
- Gerontology
- Funeral Service Marketing
- Risk Management
On-the-job training
- Initiating Service
- Intake / initial call
- Transportation of body
- Procuring body history / data
- Preparation of legal documents - death certificate, burial permit
- Sanitation
- Body and area sanitation
- Personal hygiene
- Conform to State health laws
- Embalming
- Use trocar to remove organ waste
- Inject embalming fluid using arterial, carotid, and hairpin tubes
- Remove blood and fluids using varied drain tubes and pumps
- Clear cavities using aspirators
- Lay out body using varied hand/body positioners
- incise and suture cavities
- Pack body orifices with cotton and fluid
- Body Restoration and Correction
- Apply cosmetics
- Reshape or reconstruct disfigurations
- Join lips using sutures
- Dress and arrange body in casket
- Equipment Maintenance
- Cadaver lifts, body positioners
- Aspirators, pumps, forceps, clamps, drains, hoses, trocars, surgical scissors, incisers, needles
- Sterilizers, autoclaves
- Makeup kits, brushes, sprayers
- Purchasing Inventory and Control
- Purchasing inventory and control
- Record Keeping
- Municipal, state, business
- Funeral Arrangements / Directing
- Conduct interviews
- Arrange obituary notices
- Assist with selection of caskets/urns
- Coordinate location and time of burials
- Coordinate visiting, viewing, and memorial sessions
- Arrange flowers, music, visual, military, or other arrangements as requested
- Transportation of body to cemetery / crematorium
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