Funeral Director Continuing Education

Join us here at Iowa Western Community College to meet your Funeral Director Continuing Education needs. We meet your continuing education requirements with quality program offerings and instructors; networking opportunities and friendly, helpful staff. Normally we offer five programs a year created just for funeral directors—three in the spring and two in the fall. Located just off Interstate 80, our campus is convenient from all locations. You can request brochures or register for programs on-line.

There are no classes scheduled at this time please check back later.

SPRING 2013 DATES

When Disaster Strikes…A DMORT Presentation and
What Is A Disaster Mortuary Operational Response Team (DMORT)?

Wednesday April 3, 2013 from 4:00 - 9:00 p.m.

The National Response Framework (NRF) utilizes the National Disaster Medical System (NDMS), as part of the Department of Health & Human Services, Assistant Secretary for Preparedness and Response (ASPR), Office of Preparedness and Operations (OPEO), under Emergency Support Function #8 (ESF #8), Health and Medical Care, to provide victim identification and mortuary services. These responsibilities include:

• temporary morgue facilities
• victim identification
• forensic dental pathology
• forensic anthropology methods
• processing
• preparation
• disposition of remains

Presenters: John Frasco, DDS; John Filippi, DDS, James Fullerton, BSMS, LFD&E, CFSP, CPC. When Disaster Strikes....Flyer

Infectious Diseases and Funeral Service OSHA Regulatory Overview and Hazardous Materials and Hazardous Waste…What’s the Difference?

Wednesday April 17, 2013 from 4:00 - 9:00 p.m.

This presentation will cover several topics including an overview of the main OSHA Standards with application for funeral service. What Funeral Directors need to know about disposal of hazardous materials and hazardous wastes as well as discussion on MRSA, TB, C diff, prion diseases, hepatitis, and HIV.

Presenter: Richard Best, Corporate Director of OSHA Compliance for Stericycle, Inc.

Association is Preneed the iPAD or Edsel of Funeral Service?

Wednesday April 24, 2013 from 4:00 - 9:00 p.m.

The business world is full of grand successes and epic failures. In the 1970’s the word “preneed” did not exist. By the 1980’s funeral service had not only embraced the term but saw it as our golden future. By the 1990’s we had been convinced that if we did not promote it, market it, and outsell our competitor with it, we’d be left in the dust. But with the failure of NPS, companies too numerous to mention exiting the business, state trusts under scrutiny, and a historic recession killing returns, we must at least question whether preneed is helping us or hurting us. It’s time for a reality check.

Funeral Service Ethics

Every business and profession is talking about ethics more than ever before. Life has become more complicated and so too have the business situations we face on a day-to-day basis. Join us for a panel discussion of real life dilemmas funeral directors can find themselves in. Join in as the panel explores the professional, legal, ethical, and moral ways to deal with them.

Presenter: Curtis Rostad, Executive Director, Indiana Funeral Directors