Title: Introduction to Mortuary Science (14299)

Demonstrating Personal Qualities and Abilities
  Demonstrate creativity and innovation.
  Demonstrate critical thinking and problem solving.
  Demonstrate initiative and self-direction.
  Demonstrate integrity.
  Demonstrate work ethic.
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Demonstrating Interpersonal Skills
  Demonstrate conflict-resolution skills.
  Demonstrate listening and speaking skills.
  Demonstrate respect for diversity.
  Demonstrate customer service skills.
  Collaborate with team members.
Demonstrating Professional Competencies
  Demonstrate big-picture thinking.
  Demonstrate career- and life-management skills.
  Demonstrate continuous learning and adaptability.
  Manage time and resources.
  Demonstrate information-literacy skills.
  Demonstrate an understanding of information security.
  Maintain working knowledge of current information-technology (IT) systems.
  Demonstrate proficiency with technologies, tools, and machines common to a specific occupation.
  Apply mathematical skills to job-specific tasks.
  Demonstrate professionalism.
  Demonstrate reading and writing skills.
  Demonstrate workplace safety.
Examining All Aspects of an Industry
  Examine aspects of planning within an industry/organization.
  Examine aspects of management within an industry/organization.
  Examine aspects of financial responsibility within an industry/organization.
  Examine technical and production skills required of workers within an industry/organization.
  Examine principles of technology that underlie an industry/organization.
  Examine labor issues related to an industry/organization.
  Examine community issues related to an industry/organization.
  Examine health, safety, and environmental issues related to an industry/organization.
Addressing Elements of Student Life
  Identify the purposes and goals of the student organization.
  Explain the benefits and responsibilities of membership in the student organization as a student and in professional/civic organizations as an adult.
  Demonstrate leadership skills through participation in student organization activities, such as meetings, programs, and projects.
  Identify Internet safety issues and procedures for complying with acceptable use standards.
Exploring Work-Based Learning
  Identify the types of work-based learning (WBL) opportunities.
  (Optional) Reflect on lessons learned during the WBL experience.
  Explore career opportunities related to the WBL experience.
  (Optional) Participate in a WBL experience, when appropriate.
Exploring the History of Mortuary Science
  Describe the history of mortuary science.
  Identify changes in funerals and embalming methods during the last half century.
Exploring Careers in Mortuary Science
  Describe careers associated with mortuary science.
  Identify areas of professional growth through continuing education.
  Cooperate in community programs for controlling disease and promoting medical research.
Understanding Laws Related to Funeral Service Practice and Public Health
  Identify the laws relating to the decedent’s body.
  Explain the legal obligations of funeral director.
  Explain the financial aspects of the funeral arrangements, disposition, and estate law.
  Explain preplanning services to client families.
  Describe the process of planning a funeral.
  Explain the responsibilities of a funeral director.
  Explain the responsibilities of an embalmer.
  Identify civic laws with which a funeral director should be familiar.
  Identify the reports/contracts/licenses associated with death.
  Identify possible issues encountered when preparing a decedent for burial.
  Explain the cremation process.
  Define all authorizations required to maintain legality of cremation including informed consent.
  Describe the rights of the decedent in pre-arranging his/her own funeral.
  Explain how and why a decedent is embalmed.
  Identify the rules, qualifications, and regulations governing burial in national and state cemeteries.
Managing Funeral Home Facilities
  Identify necessary equipment used in the funeral home business.
  Describe the regulations governing an embalming room.
  Identify the kind of software used in mortuary services.
Exploring the Handling and Disposition of the Decedent
  Describe the funeral customs.
  Explain modern theories concerning the sociological and psychological aspects of death, dying, bereavement, and mourning.
  Discuss the interplay in society of customs and contemporary practices.
  Differentiate among sociological terms applied to American funerals.
  Describe the philosophies regarding death in different cultures.
  Describe respect for human remains.
  Identify means to promote acceptance of racial and cultural diversity.
Protecting Personal and Public Health
  Explain the embalming-disinfection process.
  Describe the six components of the infectious processes.
  Identify cases that require special treatments.
  Recognize the conditions which require special procedures in the removal, handling, preparation, and disposition of human remains.
  Implement infection control techniques according to state and local health department guidelines according to Centers for Disease Control (CDC) guidelines.
  Explain the benefits of a healthy lifestyle on the human body.
  Recognition of psychological and sociological impact on the funeral director and embalmer.
  Describe personal and environmental disinfection and decontamination procedures.
Describe personal and environmental disinfection and decontamination procedures. Communicating with Members of the Profession and the Public
  Define the terminology that allows effective communication between members of the profession and the lay public.
  Identify the characteristic features of solutions, suspensions, and emulsions.
  Describe the processes of diffusion.
  Explain the benefits of being a living donor.
Understanding the Science of Death and the Preservation of the Body
  Explain the common causes associated with death.
  (Optional) Identify the physical states of matter.
  (Optional) Identify the characteristics of the chemistry of decomposition.
  (Optional) Identify the components of basic biochemistry.
  (Optional) Define organic chemistry.
  (Optional) Describe the characteristic features of organic chemical compounds.
  Explain the prerequisites for specified restorative and cosmetic treatments.
  Identify the correct colorants (from a specified cosmetic medium) to achieve a natural appearance under various conditions.
  Reconstruct/cosmeticize features of the face (direct and profile views), using photographs.
  Identify the bone structures of the face and skull.
Performing the Basic Techniques of Embalming
  Demonstrate knowledge of the body systems.
  Specify representative chemicals and their respective functions in embalming fluids.
  Identify the basic theories and laws of chemistry as they pertain to embalming.
  Describe problems encountered before and during embalming.
  Describe different methods of preservation.
Exploring the Purposes, Procedures, and Values of Funeral Services
  Identify the psychological purposes that the funeral serves for the family, friends, church, occupational associates, and community of the decedent.
  Identify the philosophical values of the funeral.
  Identify the sociological purposes and values of the funeral.
  Identify the times or situations during which a funeral director will recommend counseling.
  Describe the areas of counseling normally covered during the loss of a loved one.
  Identify the psychological and sociological value of the funeral arrangement meeting.
  Determine the important information to obtain during each type of counseling situation.
  Identify the basic problems that may appear during counseling situations.
  Describe contemporary opinions regarding sociology of death, grief, and bereavement.
  Explain types of counseling techniques.
  Identify the stages of dying.
Planning the Funeral
  Develop a relationship with the family at the first meeting.
  Describe how to complete the following forms.
  Identify the person(s) who is qualified to give permission for release of the decedent from a hospital, or to sign the hospital death record, if required.
  Identify the information to be secured from and/or given to the family upon initial family contact.
  Describe the steps required between initial notification of death and removal of the decedent.
  Identify the qualified person(s) to authorize an autopsy and embalming.
  Identify the items and considerations usually included in the arrangement conference.
  Identify the types of death certificates and their uses.
  Identify the consideration normally involved in setting the order for the processional and recessional of a funeral service.
  Describe the clothing items of religious and/or ethnic burial requirements for the decedent.
  Describe the proper techniques and equipment employed in the dignified removal of remains under diverse conditions.
  Define who should obtain and/or why a burial transit permit should be obtained.
  Write obituary and death notices.
  Describe considerations involved in the dignified movement of casketed remains.
  Coordinate a variety of committal rites when these are a part of a funeral.
  Explore methods of dealing with interpersonal conflicts among family members.
  Discuss dismissal procedures for leaving the gravesite.
  Explain the elements involved in harmonizing the colors of caskets in the funeral setting.
  Describe the various types of floral arrangements and the considerations involved in their placement.
  Identify requirements and procedure pertaining to cremains, calcination, and burial at sea.
Understanding Business Principles and Practices for a Funeral Service
  Identify the various types of outer burial container.
  Differentiate between methods of quoting the price(s) of funeral service.
  Identify the insurance needs of a funeral director and funeral service practice.
Understanding the Relationships and Responsibilities of a Funeral Director
  Identify associates of a funeral director.
  Identify the major funeral director associations.
  Describe the structure and function of the International Conference of Funeral Service Examining Boards Inc. and American Board of Funeral Service Education.
  Describe the structure of “multi-unit” funeral home organizations.
  Identify permits and forms required for facility operation.
Recognizing Responsibilities of the Forensic Pathologist
  Identify special conditions attending a death whereby notification of the death is required.
  Identify the technical manifestations of death, which may be of medicolegal significance.
Fulfilling the Responsibilities of Licensure
  Identify the responsibilities of the funeral director.
  Identify the responsibilities of the funeral director to the profession.
  Perform tasks applicable to Virginia.
Participating in Community Affairs
  Identify the methods to establishing a funeral home public relations program.
Additional Course Information
  Student Competency Records
  8354 Standards Correlations.pdf
  8354 Credentials-Sequences-Clusters.pdf
  8354 Acknowledgments and Copyright Information.pdf