Temporary Preservation Course
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All sessions are delivered by qualified embalmers.
- Natural and Autopsy Cases – $4,000.00
Students wishing to develop their understanding of the embalming process and all that it entails may find this course of interest.
This course is delivered online and in the workplace.
Topic covered include:
Learn to work effectively in the funeral services industry
- Learn the correct procedure to encoffin the deceased person
- Learn to deal with grief and trauma
- Learn to determine body preparation requirements
- Learn to cleanse and disinfect deceased bodies
- Learn to set facial features
- Learn to restore minor body damage
- Learn to restore head damage on autopsied cases
- Learn to restore and set eyes after eye donation
- Learn to dress bodies and apply cosmetics
- Learn to supervise mortuary operations
- Learn to determine embalming requirements
- Learn to treat the arterial system
- Learn to treat abdominal and thoracic cavities
- Learn to treat tissue gas
- Learn to follow infection and contamination control procedures
- Learn to follow mortuary OHS procedures
- Learn the importance of providing service to clients
- Learn how to clean and sterilise mortuary items and equipment
- Learn how to participate in industry networks
