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Mortuary Administration (Exam 1) Study Guide with Complete Solutions Notification of Death - Answer️️ -*"First Call" *98% by telephone *2% in person *Importance of telephone etiquette Answering Phone - Answer️️ -*Salutation should be -Name of funeral home "Wright Funeral Home, Tim W...

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Mortuary Administration (Exam 1) Study
Guide with Complete Solutions

Notification of Death - Answer✔️✔️-*"First Call"


*98% by telephone

*2% in person

*Importance of telephone etiquette

Answering Phone - Answer✔️✔️-*Salutation should be

-Name of funeral home

"Wright Funeral Home, Tim Wright speaking, may I help you?"

*Avoid using "good morning", "good afternoon", etc.

Voice: Quality & Tone - Answer✔️✔️-*Not overly cheerful

*Not sad or forlorn

*Avoid sounding monotone, bored, or impatient

Voice: Diction - Answer✔️✔️-*Speak at moderate pace

*Pronounce words correctly

*Especially when firm uses multiple names

Voice: Volume & Tone - Answer✔️✔️-*Not so loud that its offensive

*Not so quiet the caller has to strain to hear

*Minimize background noise

-distracts caller and employee

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Closing the Call - Answer✔️✔️-*State approximate arrival time (AVOID: "We will be right

there!")

*Assure caller of continuing assistance

*Encourage calls for any questions or concerns

*"Permit caller to end conversation"

*Avoid saying "thank you"

Obtaining Information - Answer✔️✔️-*Only basic information

*Need to transfer remains to funeral home

*Depends on location of the body

*Circumstances of death

Death at Resident - Answer✔️✔️-*Name & age of decedent

*Date & time of death (if known)

*Address & location of residence (directions if necessary)

*residence telephone number

*Name, relationship, & telephone number of caller

*Presence of law enforcement personnel

*Has physician, ME, or coroner been notified

*Has body been released

*Permission to embalm from individual with right of final disposition

*Is family ready for funeral home personnel to arrive?

Medical Examiner - Answer✔️✔️-*Forensically trained physician

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*MD/DO

*Investigates questionable or unattended deaths

*appointed

Coroner - Answer✔️✔️-*Public officer

*Investigates questionable/unattended deaths

*Elected

*Often funeral director

Death at Institution - Answer✔️✔️-*Hospital, nursing home, or hospice

-name/address of institution

*Name & birth date of decedent

*Date, time & place of death

*Caller's name, title, and phone number

*Name/address/phone of attending physician

*Name of spouse/next of kin

*Relationship to decedent

*Address & phone number

Important Questions - Answer✔️✔️-*Autopsy

*Release of Remains

*Time

*Availability of refrigeration

*Entrance to institution

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