Funeral Practitioner
Hybrid-based
ONET: 39-4031.00
2
Years
32
Skills
4000h
On-the-job training
On-the-job training
- Initiating Service
- Intake / initial call
- Transportation of body
- Procuring body history / data
- Preparation of legal documents: Death certificate
- Preparation of legal documents: 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, 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
- Dress and arrange body in casket
- 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
- 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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