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Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease
By Curtis D. Rostad, CFSP:
This course outlines the guidelines for funeral directors and embalmers for the safe procedures to be used in the handling of a known or suspected Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease case.
2 EMB CE.
Dr. Hambly's Historical Guide to Embalming Cookbook
By Troy R. Hambly, Ph D., CFSP:
A brief look into the 9000 year history of embalming innovation, practices and failures throughout the ages, how we got to where we are today and looking towards the future.
3 EMB CE.
Embalming and Renal Failure: A Silent Danger for Embalmers
By Jzyk S. Ennis, Ph.D.:
Diseases of the kidney are in the top ten causes of death in the United States. Difficulties from renal failure can severely affect the embalming process and an unacceptable outcome may result. This failure may cause emotional harm to grieving families. After graduation from an accredited funeral service education program, very few resources exist for continuing education in the embalming of kidney disease/renal failure cases. This book breaks that silence. Kidney disease, renal failure, and dialysis are explored in the early chapters of the text. After understanding the disease, examinations are made of existing standards of care for embalming renal failure cases. Finally, suggested protocols are outlined and expert embalmers from around the United States offer personal suggestions for successful embalming of renal failure cases. This is a useful guide for all levels of embalmers.
3 EMB CE.
Embalming History, Theory and Practice
By Robert G. Mayer:
This book combines the subjects of embalming, restorative art and cosmetology. Designed as a textbook for the mortuary science student, it is also a reference source for the practitioner.
There are two tests offered with this book for a total of 12 EMB CE. Test 1 is worth 6 EMB CE and Test 2 is worth 6 EMB CE.
12 EMB CE.
Embalming Standards of Care
By Jzyk S. Ennis, Ph.D.:
This book is written to inspire the next generation of embalmers to be the best they can be and remind the “old hands” that we can still learn and strive for greatness. The families that we serve deserve it. For those of you in states where cremation is (or will be) in the 70-90% range, remember that there will still be that percentage of families who may want traditional services that include embalming. There will also be those who want cremation after embalming and visitation. It is the embalmer in these high cremation areas who really needs to maintain skills so that when called upon, you are ready. It is the previous embalmers who will be limited by repetition due to cremation and who must really remember and practice standards of care and professional techniques. Will embalming decrease over the coming decades? It already has. Will embalming and embalmers become obsolete like typewriters and printed yellow pages? No. In fact, great embalmers will naturally excel in a free market system. There will be a need for great embalmers. It is my hope that the following pages, chapters, standards, and ideas empower those of you who are embalmers and those of you who want to be prepared to serve those families who will value the services that only a professional embalmer can provide.
6 EMB CE.
Ethics for the New Millennium
By The Dalai Lama:
A philosophical course on Ethics designed to assist the funeral director in focusing on the most essential aspects outlined by the Dalai Lama and others. You will explore what you have learned after reading the text by sharing your own concepts
6 GE CE.
Funeral Home Customer Service A-Z
By Alan D. Wolfelt, Ph.D.:
This book uses real-world examples, practical customer service topics and advice from visionary funeral homes and funeral directors in order to explain the trends impacting funeral service today.
6 FD CE.
Honor Guard Presentation
By William L. Cotter:
In an effort to continue to honor military veterans and their families at their time of death, this alternative program consisting of high school honor roll students was developed.
A paper test will be included with the CD-Rom that will need to be completed and returned.
3 FD CE.
Making Your Phone Ring w/ Internet Marketing for Funeral Homes
By Welton Hong:
In the first edition of this book, marketing expert Welton Hong advised funeral home owners that the nature of marketing was rapidly changing, and they needed to evolve to survive. Four years later, we live in a world where everyone from adolescents to great-grandparents have convenient 24/7 access to the internet through smartphones, tablets, and even smartwatches and smart speakers! Now that it's incredibly easy to access information online, it's imperative that funeral homes take advantage of techniques to attract at-need and preneed clientele over the internet. Some offline marketing methods still work—and if you're getting solid ROI, stick with them—but you simply can't succeed in an age of competition from direct cremation providers and corporate firms without also having a robust internet marketing strategy. In this comprehensively updated 2019 edition of Making Your Phone Ring for Funeral Homes, Hong clearly explains all the ways you can surpass local competitors on the internet, connect with families online, and convert those online leads into actual clientele!
6 FD CE.
Reverence For the Dead: The Unavoidable Link
By Todd Van Beck:
This work is devoted to articulating and defining the Ethic of Reverence for the Dead. The contents of the book takes the reader through the ethical decision making process, as well as linking the ethic to the psycho/social dynamics of the living in dealing with the dead. This book is an assessment of the consequences that the ethic of reverence for the dead has on everyday life. Reverence for the Dead has been authored by a funeral professional, academic, funeral historian, author and lecturer and is the conclusion of over a 48 year career in dealing with the raw data of death.
6 FD CE.
The Genius of Frank E. Campbell
By Todd W. Van Beck:
Talk about branding! Frank E. Campbell. The name says it all, well at least with New Yorkers and funeral professionals around the world. Walk down any street in the boroughs of New York City and ask anybody you meet this questions, “Name a funeral home in Manhattan?” Chances are very good that the response will be, “Frank E. Campbell.” Now ask any funeral director, “Who is the most famous funeral director ever?” The response will most often be: Frank E. Campbell. Added to all this is that the policy of the New York Times, when they run obituaries of the rich and famous is to NOT mention specific funeral home names, unless the funeral is being conducted by Frank E. Campbell. The clientele of Frank E. Campbell reads like a veritable who’s who of the rich and famous. Here is a very small idea of celebrity and social luminaries who have been cared for by Frank E. Campbell, The Funeral Chapel: Elizabeth Arden, Yul Brenner, James Cagney, Jacqueline Kennedy, Robert F. Kennedy, John Lennon, Judy Garland, J.C. Penny, Mae West, and of course Rudolph Valentino. Today the Frank E. Campbell building at 81st and Madison Avenue in Manhattan is very discrete and draws little attention to itself. The founder however, Frank E. Campbell was not discrete at times, and certainly was an expert at drawing attention to himself and his firm. Frank E. Campbell is still the reigning funeral home in Manhattan, but the man himself has been dead for over 80 years. It is time that his story be told, and what a story it is. We begin by asking some interesting questions. Who was Frank E. Campbell? How did he become a funeral director, and how did this one funeral director attract such a lustrous clientele? What was Frank E. Campbell like as a real live human being, and why was Mr. Campbell’s remains not permanently buried until almost seventy five years after his death? This work attempts to answer these and a myriad of other questions about the life and career of Frank E. Campbell. In the annals of funeral service history it is generally conceded and accepted by students of the subject that one man Frank E. Campbell, Mortician (he himself preferred mortician to funeral director) produced one of the most profound and lasting impacts on American funeral service practices in the late 19th, and the early 20th century. This is a fascinating story about a famous funeral director!
3 FD CE.
The Story of Cremation
By Todd W. Van Beck:
This book tells the fascinating story of cremation. The practice of cremation is ancient and over the decades some very interesting things have happened. This book covers the following: Significant Events in Time, Religious Thinking as a Powerful Influence, Industrial Developments that Generated High Heat, Cultural Nuances, and The Downside of Cremation. This book tells a great history, and is a good read.
A paper test will be included with the book that will need to be completed and returned in the envelope provided.
3 FD CE.
The Undertaking: Life Studies from the Dismal Trade
By Thomas Lynch:
This course is based on a unique collection of essays by Thomas Lynch, a writer, poet and funeral director in a small town in central Michigan where he and his family have cared for the dead and the living for three generations.
A paper test will be included with the book that will need to be completed and returned in the envelope provided.
6 FD CE.
