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Tips for studying in advance! best done on a day off for added benefit write out material once per cycle OR add test-friendly body movement while studying - ** VERIFIED ANSWERS **✔✔Read the questions aloud then restate the question as you continue to read the answer aloud -> Do this ONCE for the ENTIRE STUDY MATERIAL -> Take a break for 1-2 hours and read aloud HALF of the study material -> Take a break for ~2 hours then read aloud the other half -> After ONE DAY PASSES read aloud the material once more -> Take a 3-4 hour break then read the ENTIRE STUDY MATERIAL aloud again -> Read aloud the entire study material 1-2 times more that same day -> Repeat this for approximately a month around 3-4 times (adding longer breaks as the month progresses)

What is Cremation? What is the difference between a Crematory and Direct Cremation Facility? - ** VERIFIED ANSWERS **✔✔Cremation: reducing human remains to bone fragments with heat and evaporation Crematory: area housing chamber for cremation and the holding facility Direct Cremation Facility: place with a specific address devoted to direct cremation; only cremation; no services held Funeral Directors do _____? - ** VERIFIED ANSWERS **✔✔Prepare or contract embalming, cremation, burial or disposal/ funerals OR Direct and supervise funerals, burials, cremations, or dispositions of the dead Exclusions to the International Conference of Funeral Service Examining Boards are _______? - ** VERIFIED ANSWERS **✔✔People who shroud the dead Cemetery employees who only work in the cemetery Federal institutions Offices of the U.S. Armed Forces Native Indian pursuant What are the duties of a Funeral Director who obtains unclaimed remains thought to be a veteran? - ** VERIFIED ANSWERS **✔✔1. Report the name to the Department of Veteran Services within a year

2. (After receiving a report from the Department of Veteran Services saying remains are a veteran); Arrange disposition with: national or veteran cemetery, Department of Veteran Services What is the Nevada Funeral and Cemetery Board? - ** VERIFIED ANSWERS **✔✔Two active directors or embalmers One active crematory operator One cemetery or direct cremation facility operator

Three people not affiliated with the funeral business How often can the Board call for an inspection? - ** VERIFIED ANSWERS **✔✔At least once every two years by someone not a member of the Board Embalmers with apprentices must _____? - ** VERIFIED ANSWERS **✔✔Report semiannually (Before July 1 and January 1) about the work done of the apprentice(s) Keep the apprentice no more than 2 consecutive years Personally supervise the apprentice(s) Funeral Directors ______? - ** VERIFIED ANSWERS **✔✔Are 18+ years with good moral standing Passed the Director's Exam on: Laws and regulations regarding funeral services and disposition of the dead, local health practices, signs of death/ how is determined, and Federal funeral regulations Must have 1+ years as an arranger Licensed by the Board as a Director Funeral arrangers _____? - ** VERIFIED ANSWERS **✔✔Are 18+ years with good moral standing Pass test on funeral law and regulations, local health rules and Federal regulations Licenses must be ____ in the work place? - ** VERIFIED ANSWERS **✔✔Licenses must be displayed openly in the workplace False or Misleading Advertising includes ____? - ** VERIFIED ANSWERS **✔✔Listing ONLY casket prices; not saying prices of other goods and services Charging cost AND a percentage for goods and services Selling stock in establishment that doesn't grant percentage of ownership

Charging below reasonable cost of merchandise and overhead Saying competitors charge too much Claiming to be attacked by other mortuaries Claiming to defend public interest/ not being in a monopoly Not stating limits of Direct Cremation (if a Direct Cremation Facility) Advertising under different information than on certificate Unprofessional conduct includes _____? - ** VERIFIED ANSWERS **✔✔Misrepresentation/ fraud of business Soliciting (Not general advertisement) Employment of solicitors to get business Grounds for disciplinary action are ____? - ** VERIFIED ANSWERS **✔✔1. Gross incompetency

2. Unprofessional, unethical or dishonest conduct
3. Habitual intemperance
4. Illegally/fraud while embalming
5. Employing solicitors
6. Malpractice
7. Gross immorality
8. Using illegal drugs
9. Conviction of a felony regarding embalming
10. False or misleading advertisement
11. Refusing to give a body to someone legally entitled to it
12. Stealing front a trust What happens when a Board member conducts an investigation? - ** VERIFIED ANSWERS **✔✔The designated member reports to the Attorney General for: dismissing the investigation or continuing

How long is a Fiscal Year? - ** VERIFIED ANSWERS **✔✔July 1 to June 30 Is someone allowed to view cremation? - ** VERIFIED ANSWERS **✔✔Unless within the normal scope of your work or authorized by the family of the decedent, you can't witness a cremation Can you cremate multiple people? - ** VERIFIED ANSWERS **✔✔Multiple people can only be cremated together if authorized by the person making the arrangement in writing What is required when releasing cremains? - ** VERIFIED ANSWERS **✔✔Person receiving remains and a representative of the crematory must sign a receipt the crematory must keep, showing: date, time and place of the receipt The person who authorized the cremation must ______ after cremation is complete, otherwise the crematory can _____ - ** VERIFIED ANSWERS **✔✔Whoever ordered cremation is responsible for picking up remains 30 days after cremation If remains not picked up after 30 days, with no specified disposition, the crematory can charge a holding fee and put them in a common holding place. If remains not claimed in 2 years, with no specified disposition, the crematory can dispose of them at their legal leisure; agent is then liable for disposal expenses What does a crematory do when social services is involved? - ** VERIFIED ANSWERS **✔✔The crematory can't claim estate against the decedent How can you not dispose of remains? - ** VERIFIED ANSWERS **✔✔Can't commingle in a manner or location of those of another OR

share an urn is designed for multiple people, whom are friends or family of the decedent How can cremains be disposed of? - ** VERIFIED ANSWERS **✔✔Sea, over a public waterway, air or any manner on private property if whoever ordered the cremation and property owner agree, or dedicated portion of a cemetery exclusively for cremains (cremains must be in a closed, suitable/secure outer box) Crematory liability during a dispute: - ** VERIFIED ANSWERS **✔✔not liable for refusing to accept or cremate until court order or a suitable conformation that dispute is settled IF: Crematory is aware of the dispute, has reason to question any representation made by person order cremation, or any unlawful reason What happens to an incomplete death certificate? - ** VERIFIED ANSWERS **✔✔Local health officer shall note defects in the return and withhold issuing the burial or removal permit until corrected What happens with an incomplete brith certificate? - ** VERIFIED ANSWERS **✔✔Health officer will notify whoever made the birth certificate and require them to provide missing information if possible Prices of the Board are ____? - ** VERIFIED ANSWERS **✔✔Application-Exam fee: $ Renewal of license: $ Late renewal license: $ Change of status of license: $ Reinstatement of a license: $ Transfer of a license: $ 225 Duplicate licenses: $

Admin. service charge: $ $10 regulatory fee per (entire) funeral service Embalmers must _____? - ** VERIFIED ANSWERS **✔✔18+ years Good moral standing High school graduate with 60 semester units Complete 12 months of mortuary science with 1+ year apprentice experience Embalmed 50+ bodies as an apprentice Present two witnesses of to-be embalmer's good character to the Board Pass the Board exam and pay necessary fees What are the rules for neglect and false certification of a physician on a death certificate? - ** VERIFIED ANSWERS **✔✔$250 fine for neglecting or refusing to give funeral agent the medical death certificate (if present at tie of death) $250 fine for knowingly making a false death certificate It is illegal for anyone to sign an uncompleted death certificate Contents of a Burial Permit are ____? - ** VERIFIED ANSWERS **✔✔1. a statement by the local health officer and their signature of approval

2. permission to inter, remove, or otherwise dispose of the deceased
3. Name, Age, Sex, SOC, Cause of death, Place dead will be interred, inurned or buried, and Other information requested (NASSOC-PO) How long do you have to get a permit for removal, or burial? - ** VERIFIED ANSWERS **✔✔72 hours to be issued a permit after death, before further disposing of a body If person who certifies death consents, a body may be moved from the place of death to another location for their final disposition

The required disclosures of the GPL are ____? - ** VERIFIED ANSWERS **✔✔1. Consumer right to choose services

2. Embalming
3. Alternative containers for cremation
4. Basic Fees and services
5. Casket Price List
6. Outer Burial Container Price List What must the Casket Price List contain? - ** VERIFIED ANSWERS **✔✔1. Name of the business
7. Caption "Casket Price List"
8. Effective date of the CPL
9. Price of each casket and alternative container that doesn't require special ordering When do you disclose the Casket Price List and General Price List? - ** VERIFIED ANSWERS **✔✔Give the GPL before discuss funeral services and the CPL before discussing containers What do you do if someone calls about prices? - ** VERIFIED ANSWERS **✔✔Provide accurate information and answers to any questions, about the GPL, CPL, OBCPL Are you allowed to require embalming, caskets, or outer burial caskets for an arrangement? - ** VERIFIED ANSWERS **✔✔Can't say outer burial container, caskets for cremation, and embalming are required if state law does not state that, for their specific scenario If you do require one of these choices, you must state in identify and describe why you required this on the Statement of Funeral Goods and Services

Can you charge someone who buys caskets from a third party? - ** VERIFIED ANSWERS **✔✔Funeral home cannot charge consumer any additional fee for purchasing a casket elsewhere When can embalming be charged for? - ** VERIFIED ANSWERS **✔✔1. After having exercised due diligence and have not received conformation from the family, AND have no reason to believe the family does not want embalming

2. If state law requires embalming for that specific scenario
3. Express permission from family or authorized person Stillbirth is defined as _____? - ** VERIFIED ANSWERS **✔✔20+ weeks gestation where child shows no sign of life after birth What are Vital Statistics? - ** VERIFIED ANSWERS **✔✔Records of birth, death/fetal death, marriage/annulment of marriage/divorce and other data If a death occurs without medical personnel present, the funeral director shall ____? - ** VERIFIED ANSWERS **✔✔Notify the health officer, coroner or coroner's deputy and refer the case for immediate investigation and certification Who can certify the cause of death? - ** VERIFIED ANSWERS **✔✔1. physician
4. A nurse for 120 after death , if approved by physician beforehand
5. Coroner or coroner deputy