Prepare bodies for interment in conformity with legal requirements.
- Apprentice Embalmer
- Assistant Manager/Embalmer
- Associate Embalmer/Funeral Director
- Chief Embalmer
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- Embalmer/Funeral Director
- Funeral Director/Embalmer
- Funeral Service Licensee
- Licensed Embalmer
- Preparation Room Manager
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- Apply cosmetics to impart lifelike appearance to the deceased.
- Arrange for transporting the deceased to another state for interment.
- Arrange funeral home equipment and perform general maintenance.
- Assist coroners at death scenes or at autopsies, file police reports, and testify at inquests or in court, if employed by a coroner.
- Assist with placing caskets in hearses and organize cemetery processions.
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- Apply cosmetics to impart lifelike appearance to the deceased.
- Arrange for transporting the deceased to another state for interment.
- Arrange funeral home equipment and perform general maintenance.
- Assist coroners at death scenes or at autopsies, file police reports, and testify at inquests or in court, if employed by a coroner.
- Assist with placing caskets in hearses and organize cemetery processions.
- Attach trocar to pump-tube, start pump, and repeat probing to force embalming fluid into organs.
- Close incisions, using needles and sutures.
- Conduct interviews to arrange for the preparation of obituary notices, to assist with the selection of caskets or urns, and to determine the location and time of burials or cremations.
- Conform to laws of health and sanitation and ensure that legal requirements concerning embalming are met.
- Direct casket and floral display placement and arrange guest seating.
- Dress bodies and place them in caskets.
- Incise stomach and abdominal walls and probe internal organs, using trocar, to withdraw blood and waste matter from organs.
- Insert convex celluloid or cotton between eyeballs and eyelids to prevent slipping and sinking of eyelids.
- Join lips, using needles and thread or wire.
- Maintain records such as itemized lists of clothing or valuables delivered with body and names of persons embalmed.
- Make incisions in arms or thighs and drain blood from circulatory system and replace it with embalming fluid, using pump.
- Pack body orifices with cotton saturated with embalming fluid to prevent escape of gases or waste matter.
- Perform special procedures necessary for remains that are to be transported to other states or overseas, or where death was caused by infectious disease.
- Perform the duties of funeral directors, including coordinating funeral activities.
- Press diaphragm to evacuate air from lungs.
- Reshape or reconstruct disfigured or maimed bodies when necessary, using dermasurgery techniques and materials such as clay, cotton, plaster of Paris, and wax.
- Serve as pallbearers, attend visiting rooms, and provide other assistance to the bereaved.
- Supervise funeral attendants and other funeral home staff.
- Wash and dry bodies, using germicidal soap and towels or hot air dryers.
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- administer enemas, irrigations, or douches to patients
- administer injections
- apply make-up
- arrange decorations or furniture for banquets or social functions
- arrange for transportation or accommodations
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- administer enemas, irrigations, or douches to patients
- administer injections
- apply make-up
- arrange decorations or furniture for banquets or social functions
- arrange for transportation or accommodations
- assist in carrying casket
- consult with customers concerning needs
- coordinate activities of assistants
- determine funeral arrangements
- direct and coordinate activities of workers or staff
- direct funeral services
- ensure compliance with government regulations
- file documents in court
- follow infectious materials procedures
- greet customers, guests, visitors, or passengers
- interview customers
- interview family members to arrange funeral details
- maintain or repair work tools or equipment
- maintain records, reports, or files
- prepare bodies for interment
- provide customer service
- schedule activities, classes, or events
- sew by hand
- testify in court for accident and criminal cases
- use hair, cosmetic, or nail care instruments
- use health or sanitation standards
- use knowledge of relevant laws
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