Prepare bodies for interment in conformity with legal requirements.

Other names for Embalmers: Apprentice Embalmer, Embalmer, Embalmer Apprentice, Funeral Director Apprentice, Funeral Director/Embalmer, Funeral Service Licensee, Licensed Embalmer, Licensed Funeral Director, Mortician, Preparation Room Manager,

• Perform the duties of funeral directors, including coordinating funeral activities.
• Join lips, using needles and thread or wire.
• 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.
• Attach trocar to pump-tube, start pump, and repeat probing to force embalming fluid into organs.
• Perform special procedures necessary for remains that are to be transported to other states or overseas, or where death was caused by infectious disease.
• Maintain records such as itemized lists of clothing or valuables delivered with body and names of persons embalmed.
• Insert convex celluloid or cotton between eyeballs and eyelids to prevent slipping and sinking of eyelids.
• Wash and dry bodies, using germicidal soap and towels or hot air dryers.
• Arrange for transporting the deceased to another state for interment.
• Supervise funeral attendants and other funeral home staff.
• Pack body orifices with cotton saturated with embalming fluid to prevent escape of gases or waste matter.
• Assist with placing caskets in hearses, and organize cemetery processions.
• Serve as pallbearers, attend visiting rooms, and provide other assistance to the bereaved.
• Direct casket and floral display placement and arrange guest seating.
• 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.
• Press diaphragm to evacuate air from lungs.
• Conform to laws of health and sanitation, and ensure that legal requirements concerning embalming are met.
• Apply cosmetics to impart lifelike appearance to the deceased.
• Incise stomach and abdominal walls and probe internal organs, using trocar, to withdraw blood and waste matter from organs.
• Close incisions, using needles and sutures.
• Reshape or reconstruct disfigured or maimed bodies when necessary, using derma-surgery techniques and materials such as clay, cotton, plaster of paris, and wax.
• Make incisions in arms or thighs and drain blood from circulatory system and replace it with embalming fluid, using pump.
• Dress bodies and place them in caskets.

• Surgical trocars for general use or accessories
• Air brushes
• Chemical pumps
• Postmortem needles
• Floor grade forceps or hemostats
• Operating room patient positioning devices or accessories
• Embalming vein drainage tubes
• Hair care supplies
• Autopsy knives or blades
• Makeup kits
• Body bags
• Operating room patient positioning devices or accessories
• Embalming cavity injectors
• Postmortem incision clips
• Embalming injecting tubes
• Cadaver lifter or transfer devices
• Centrifugal pumps
• Makeup kits
• Embalming injecting tubes
• Floor grade forceps or hemostats
• Suture needles
• Manicure implements
• Desktop computers
• Mortuary aspirators
• Chemical pumps
• Embalming injector needles
• Embalming cavity injectors
• Embalming vein drainage tubes
• Eyewashers or eye wash stations
• Operating room patient positioning devices or accessories
• Ophthalmic surgical knives or blades or scissors or accessories
• Embalming vein drainage tubes
• Floor grade forceps or hemostats
• Embalming cavity injectors
• Embalming injecting tubes
• Operating room patient positioning devices or accessories
• Operating room patient positioning devices or accessories
• Makeup kits
• Cadaver lifter or transfer devices
• Mortuary aspirators
• Hypodermic needles
• Embalming vein drainage tubes
• Embalming injecting tubes
• Surgical trocars for general use or accessories
• Embalming injector needles
• Surgical scissors
• Embalming vein drainage tubes
• Notebook computers
• Makeup kits
• Bandage scissors or its supplies
• Operating room patient positioning devices or accessories
• Surgical scissors
• Cadaver lifter or transfer devices
• Autopsy fluid collection vacuum aspirators or tubing
• Autopsy fluid collection vacuum aspirators or tubing
• Paint sprayers
• Personal computers
• Makeup kits
• Safety hoods
• Medical staff isolation or surgical masks
• Medical exam or non surgical procedure gloves
• Footwear covers
• Morgue cabinet refrigerators
• Finger ring removers
• Protective coveralls
• Goggles
• Floor grade forceps or hemostats
• Steam autoclaves or sterilizers
• Makeup kits
• Embalming injecting tubes
• Floor grade forceps or hemostats
• Surgical scissors
• Autopsy saws
• Surgical shave kits or prep razors or clippers
• Surgical scalpels or knives or blades or trephines or accessories
• Surgical needle holders for general use
• Floor grade forceps or hemostats
• Makeup kits
• Steam autoclaves or sterilizers
• Floor grade forceps or hemostats

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