APPROVED
CORRESPONDENCE/HOME STUDY PROGRAMS
Last Updated: Thursday, March 28,
2013
The following programs are all of the
correspondence and home study variety, and they have been approved for
continuing education credit for Kansas licensed embalmers and funeral
directors. The maximum Kansas credit allowed for any single
correspondence or home study program is three (3) hours. Licensees
cannot accumulate more than six (6) hours of credit for programs of
this nature during any single two-year licensing renewal period.
For all programs added since last
update we have marked ADDED
with the corresponding date.
Added
7/10/2012
The following home study programs have been
approved for continuing education credit. The programs are sponsored
by The National Funeral Directors
Association. To register
please contact Faye Bonini at the NFDA (800) 228-6332.
“2012 All
Staff FTC Funeral Rule Training” has been approved for three (3) hours of continuing
education credit.
“In the
Blink of an Eye: Distracted Driving and Your Business” has been
approved for one (1) hour of
continuing education credit.
Added
5/23/2012
The following home study on-line programs have been
approved for three (3) hours
credit each. They are sponsored
by All Star Professional Training, 2942
W. Camp Wisdom Road, Grand Prairie, TX 75052. For additional
information,
please contact: Michelle Barham and
the numbers is (817)-385-1136
or by
email: allstar@allstarce.com Their website is: http://www.allstarce.us
three (3) hours
credit each:
Funeral
Directors/Embalmers Renewal"
"Funeral
Services"
"Mortuary
Science"
"Renewal for Kansas Funeral Directors/Embalmers"
three (3) hours
credit each:
"Types of Funerals"
"Depression"
"Embalming"
Added
5/24/2012
The
following home study programs have been approved as listed for each. They are sponsored by APEX Continuing Education Solutions. For additional information contact: APEX
at 1-(800) 769-8996. Email: INFO@APEXCES.COM. Website: http://www.APEXCES.com.
three (3) hours credit each:
"FTC Funeral Rule"
"Infant Embalming Techniques"
"OSHA Essentials"
"Working With Difficult People"
two (2) hours credit:
"Funeral Service Ethics"
"Telephone Inquiry Manual for Funeral Homes"
"Understanding HIV and AIDS"
one (1) hour credit:
"Creative Marketing For Funeral Homes"
Cape
School, Inc. is now offering several programs and each has been
approved for three (3) hours
of continuing education on line for Kansas licensees. You may call at
1(434) 969-5001 or go to their website by clicking here: www.capeschool.com
"HIV/AIDS - How Far Have We Really
Come?" (programming not available at this time)
"Undertaking Ethical Issues in Funeral
Home Services" (programming not available at this time)
Updated
5/23/2012
"Annual
Safety Training: Formaldehyde
Safety and Bloodborne Pathogen Safety" program is sponsored by: Gary Finch, Compliance Plus, Drawer Ten, Nixon, Texas 78140, (800)
950-1101. The program has been approved for three (3) hours each of credit.
The following home study programs
have been approved for three (3)
hours credit each. They are
sponsored by Continuing
Education for Licensing. For
additional information contact: Sharon Trussell, c/o Continuing
Education for Licensing, Route 6, Box 738, Canton, Texas 75103, or call
1-903-567-1370:
"How We Die"
"The Art of Condolence"
"The Mourning Handbook"
"Clarity
Net" courses "Bloodborne Pathogens"
and "Respiratory Protection" have each been approved for one (1) hour of continuing education for Kansas
licensees. These programs are being sponsored by Coastal, Inc. To
register, contact Mike Hall at (757) 498-9014, or email: mhall@coastal.com. Their website is www.coastal.com
C.O.E. Continuing Education
is sponsoring homestudy internet courses for Kansas licensees. To
register contact C.O.E. Continuing Education at 1-(800) 795-3004 or
write
to CEO at P.O. Box 35606, Fayetteville,
NC 28303-5606. Click http://www.coecontinuingeducation.com/
to go directly to their website. Their approved programs are :
Two (2) hrs:
“Practice of Embalmers”
Three (3) hours
each:
"Funeral and Religion Customs"
"Funeral Counseling"
"HIV/AIDS and Sanitation"
The "Strength of Doric -- Interactive
Presentation" program is
sponsored by: Doric Products, Inc., P.O. Box 10, Marshall, IL 62441,
1-800-457-0671. It has been approved by one (1) hour of credit.
"OSHA
Compliance Training" is being sponsored by Ecolomed of Tulsa, Oklahoma. This program is on-line and has been
approved for three (3) hours
of continuing education for Kansas licensees. To register call Glenn
Lafitte at 918-671-8124 or email:
ecolomed@cox.net.
Elite CME, Inc. has the following
homestudy/correspondence programs approved as listed for continuing
education for Kansas licensees. To register call Todd Mowl at 1 (888)
857-6920 or write: Elite CME, Inc.,
1452 N. Hwy US #1, PO Box 37, Ormond
Beach, FL 32174-0037 or
website: http://elitecme.com/ email: todd@elitecme.com
one (1)
hr - "Professional Ethics" (programming
not available at this time)
two (2) hrs - "HIV/Aids - Communicable
Diseases and OSHA Bloodborne Standard"
three (3) hrs - "Funeral Services: Interpersonal Skills
and Communication"
one (1) hr -
"Complying with the FTC Rules"
two (2) hrs - "Religion and the Funeral Director"
Updated
3/28/2013 The following on-line home
study courses are being sponsored by FuneralCE, P.O. Box 850127, Richardson, TX
75085. To register
contact: Customer Service at 866-332-8423, email: info@funeralce.com website: www.funeralce.com. They have
been approved as listed below, now programs highlighted in yellow.
Three (3) hours credit:
"Basic Embalming Practices"
"Bloodborne Pathogens"
"CSA Designation Program"
"Effective and Ethical Communication with Seniors"
"Ethics of Making Funeral Arrangements"
"Funeral Director as an Event
Planner"
"Green Funerals: What Every Funeral Director Must
Know"
"Handling the Obese Case: What
Every Funeral Director Should Know"
"How To Run A Funeral Business"
"Intercultural Burials"
"Maximizing Integrity in Decisions with Seniors"
"Managing Grief - A Guide for the
Funeral Professional"
"OSHA Practices Standards for Funeral
Professionals"
"OSHA Workplace Rights"
"Pre-Need Planning"
"Public Speaking For Funeral
Directors"
"Senior Market Sales Ethics"
" Understanding Social
Security: Case Studies for Funeral Directors"
"Working Ethically
with Seniors"
Two (2) hours credit:
"Communicating Effectively
with Seniors"
"Decision Making"
"Funeral Customs With
Military Honors"
"Funeral Rule"
"OSHA in the Workplace"
"Personalization in the Funeral
Industry"
"Targeting Your Primary Markets
in the Funeral Industry"
"Understanding The At-Need Consumer"
One (1) hour credit:
"Basic Funeral Customs"
"Goal Setting Basic"
"History of Preserving Human Remains"
"HIV/Aids"
"Rational Thinking"
"Stillborn Support"
"Telephone Techniques"
"Time Management"
"Working with Difficult People"
FuneralContinuingEducation.com has the following
homestudy/correspondence programs approved as listed for continuing
education for Kansas licensees. To register call Education Workers
Group at (718) 701-0385 or http://www.funeralcontinuingeducation.com/
one (1) hr:
"Helping Parents Cope with Unexpected Death"
"Helping Parents Help Children Cope With Death"
"Understanding Modern Funeral Customs"
"Understanding Hospice and Palliative Care"
"When Children Die: Guidance for the Final Arrangements"
Two (2) hrs:
"Limiting Exposure HIV/AIDS"
"Complying with the FTC Rule"
"OSHA Compliance for Funeral Homes"
"Funeral Products and the Environment"
Three (3)
hrs
Burial With Military Honors
Ethics, Attitude & Customer Service
FuneralDirectorCEUs.com
has available these on-line
study programs,
and each has been approved for three (3) hours credit each for Kansas licensees. They are sponsored
by funeraldirectorceus.com. Their mailing address is:
Funeraldirectorceus.com, Box 8723, Victoria, BC V8W353
Canada. The link is: www.funeraldirectorceus.com
"Growth
for Goals: Charting your Dream: Realizing Your Passion"
"Social Media and Funeral Service: Making
Sense of Facebook, Twitter and YouTube"
"Telephone Etiquette & Best Practices for Funeral Homes"
"Understanding
Google: The External and Internal Effects on Your Funeral Home"
The following on-line study programs have been approved for three (3) hours credit each for Kansas licensees. They are sponsored
by Funeral Review.Com. Their mailing address is:
FuneralReview.com, P.O. Box 76391, St. Petersburg, FL
33734. Toll free 1-(866) 325-4700. For additional information - Log
In@www.funeralreview.com.
"Embalming Perspectives & Paradigms
Challenged"
"Funeral Service Ethics"
"Grief Management"
"Learning to be a Leader"
"People Skills Advanced"
"Personnel Management in Funeral Service"
"The Funeral"
"Understanding and Creating Exceptional
Funeral Experiences"
"Understanding and managing Grief"
"Understanding Preneed"
"What
Matters Most"
"What Every Funeral Director & Cemeterian Should Know About
Cremation"
Approval for two (2) hours credit:
"Communicable Disease"
"HIV/AIDS A funeral practitioners guide to occupational exposure"
"Public Speaking - Comfortably"
Approved for one (1) hour credit:
"Hazard
Communications"
The following on-line study programs have been approved for one (1) hour credit each for Kansas licensees. They are sponsored
by Hospice Foundation of
America. The website is: www.hospiceonline.com. The
online courses are available on the Hospice Education Network' s
educational website. Their mailing address is: Hospice Foundation of America, 1621
Connecticut Ave., NW, Ste 300, Washington, DC 20009-1052.
"Caregiving and Loss"
Family Needs, Professional Responses"
"Coping With Public Tragedy"
"Living with Grief: Before and After Death"
"Living with Grief: After Sudden Loss"
"Living with Grief: Alzheimer's Disease"
"Living with Grief: At Work, At School, At Worship"
"Living with Grief: Ethical Dilemmas at the End of
Life"
"Living with Grief: Loss Later in Life"
"Living with Grief: When Illness is
Prolonged"
"Living with Grief: Who We Are, How We Grieve"
"Pain Management at the End of Life: Bridging the
Gap Between Knowledge and Practice"
three
(3) hrs credit for "Living with Grief: Children and Adolescents".
three
(3) hrs "Diversity and End-of-Life Care"
DVD Programs: All
credits will be awarded through Hospice Foundation of America
"Cancer
and End-of-Life Care"
is being sponsored by Hospice Foundation of
America. This has been approved for two and one-half (2-1/2) hours of
continuing education for Kansas licensees. To register contact Ms.
Kristin Baker at (202) 457-5811 or email: Kbaker@hospicefoundation.org
Added 2/18/2013
"Improving Care for Veterans Facing Illness and Death"
is being sponsored by Hospice Foundation of
America. This has been approved forthree (3) hours of
continuing education for Kansas licensees. To register contact Ms.
Kristin Baker at (800) 854-3402 or email: educate@hospicefoundation.org
"Expanding
Funeral Ethics" program is
sponsored by the Kansas Funeral
Directors Association, PO Box
1904, Topeka, KS 66601-1904 or
call (785) 232-7789. Their website is: http://www.ksfda.org/. This program has been approved for
three (3) hours credit.
"IS-700:
National Incident Management
System" program is
sponsored by the Kansas Funeral
Directors Association, PO Box
1904, Topeka, KS 66601-1904 or call (785) 232-7789. Their website is: http://www.ksfda.org/. This program has been approved for
three (3) hours credit.
"Life Appreciation
Training - Funeral Arrangements" is sponsored by Life Appreciation Training
Seminars Home Study Series and On-line Learning Center courses. For
more information contact: Kevin Bates at 1 (800) 877-8905. All programs
have been approved for three (3)
hours credit:
UPDATED
3-12-2013
National
Funeral Directors Association Home Study Series and On-line Learning
Center
courses for 2013
Registration: Contact NFDA at 1-800-228-6332 or click here for Home Study
Information and click here for
Online
Learning Courses. New
programs are
highlighted YELLOW.
Please remember although they offer additional courses only programs
listed
below have been approved for Kansas licensees.
2013 Home Study Courses-format, and approved hours:
30 Days to Social Media Success-Book,
approved for 3 hours
Building Customer Loyalty From the Inside Out-Book, approved for 3 hours
Capitalizing on Kindness-Book, approved for 3 hours
Certified Preplanning
Consultant Self-Study Program, approved for 3 hours
Companioning
You! A Soulful Guide to Caring for
Yourself While You Care for the Dying and the Bereaved-Book, approved
for 3
hours
Creating Meaningful Funeral Experiences-Book, approved for 3 hours
Customer Service in an Instant!-Book, approved for 3 hours
Ethics in Funeral Service-Book, approved for 3 hours
Funeral Home Customer Service A-Z-Book, approved for 3 hours
Funeral Service Psychology & Counseling-Book, approved for 3 hours
Great Answers to Difficult Questions About Death: What Children Need to
Know-Book, approved for 3 hours
Grievers Ask: Answers to Questions about Death and Loss-Book, approved
for 3
hours
On Grief and Grieving-Book, approved for 3 hours
Only
Angels Can Wing it: How to Write a Eulogy
Quickly and Present It Compassionately-Book, approved for 3 hours
Traversing the Minefield: Best Practices-Book, approved for 3 hours
30+
Innovative Price List Offerings-Audio CD,
approved for 2 hours
Advanced Cremation Arranging-Audio CD, approved for 3 hours
Annual
All-Staff FTC Funeral Rule Training 2012-Audio CD, approved for 3 hours
Formaldehyde: Health Effects, Precautions, and Its
Future-Audio CD, approved for 2 hours
GPL Funeral Packages: Doing Them Right-Audio CD, approved
for 2 hours
Preneed Ethics in Demanding Times-Audio CD, approved for
3 hours
With the Push to Cremate: 5 Reasons to Encourage Viewing
and Ritual-Audio CD, approved for 3 hours
Embalming Difficult Cases: Donor Cases-DVD & Video,
approved for 3 hours
Embalming
Risk Management-DVD & Video, approved for 2 hours
FTC Compliance: Handling the General Price List-DVD &
Video, approved for 3 hours
Handling
Claims, Litigation, and Regulatory Investigations-DVD/PPT, approved for
2 hours
How
to Talk to Families about Green Funeral and Burial Options-DVD/PPT,
approved
for 2 hours
Out
of Ordinary Customer Service: Pursuit of Excellence Winning
Ideas-DVD/PPT,
approved for 2 hours
Safeguarding
Your Funeral Home from Cremation Liability-DVD/PPT, approved for 2 hours
Restorative Arts: An Artist’s Perspective-DVD &
Video, approved for 3 hours
The
4 Ps of Cremation: Policies, Procedures, Performance,
Prevention-DVD/PPT,
approved for 2 hours
The Art of Facial Reconstruction-DVD & Video,
approved for 3 hours
2013 Online Learning Center, and approved hours:
ADA
Employer Compliance: Title I of the Americans with Disabilities Act,
approved
for 3 hours
Communicable
Disease: Safeguarding the Funeral Practitioner, approved for 2 hours
Communicable
Disease: What Every Funeral Home Must Know, approved for 3 hours
Conflict
Management for Funeral Directors, approved for 3 hours
Embalming
Perspectives & Paradigms Challenged, approved for 3 hours
Embalming
Risk Management, approved for 2 hours
Embalming
the Obese Case, approved for 3 hours
Five Ways
to Improve Prep Room Ventilation & Protect Your Health, approved
for 2
hours
Funeral
Service Ethics, approved for 2 hours
Grief
Management: The Role of the Funeral Service Practitioner, approved for
3 hours
Handling
Claims, Litigation, and Regulatory Investigations, approved for 2 hours
Hazard
Communication in Funeral Service, approved for 1 hour
How to
Talk to Families about Green Funeral and Burial Options, approved for 2
hours
Learning
to be a Leader, approved for 3 hours
Offering
Funeral Packages in Compliance with the FTC, approved for 2 hours
Out of the
Ordinary Customer Service, approved for 2 hours
Professional
Ethics in Funeral Service: NFDA’s Code of Professional Conduct,
approved for 1
hour
Proven
Green Funeral Home Practices, approved for 3 hours
Public
Speaking-Comfortably, approved for 2 hours
Safeguarding
Your Funeral Home from Cremation Liability, approved for 2 hours
Serving
Hispanic Families, approved for 3 hours
Simple and
Practical Best-Practice Ideas of Leading Funeral Homes, approved for 2
hours
The 4 Ps
of Cremation: Policies, Procedures, and Performance, approved for 2
hours
The
Funeral: A Chance to Serve, A chance to Heal, approved for 3 hours
Understanding
a Child’s Grief, approved for 3 hours
Understanding
Adult Grief, approved for 3 hours
Understanding
and Creating Exceptional Funeral Experiences, approved for 3 hours
Understanding
and Managing Grief, approved for 3 hours
Understanding
Preneed, approved for 3 hours
Understanding
the Practice of the FTC Funeral Rule, approved for 3 hours
What to Do
When Families Say “No Religion, Please”, approved for 2 hours
What
Matters Most: Heart’s Desire in Life and Death, approved for 3 hours
The "2012 Certified Preplanning
Consultant (CPC) Correspondence (self-study) Program) has been approved
for
three (3) hours credit. The program is sponsored by The National Funeral Directors Association.
For more information
contact: Sandra Jeske, c/o Funeral Service Educational Foundation,
13625 Bishop's Drive, Brookfield, Wisconsin, 53005,
1-800-228-6332. UPDATED 12-27-2011
The
following correspondence courses have been approved for three (3) hours each. For more information contact: Richard
Santore, c/o Practicum
Strategies, P.O. Box 1089,
8 Lenore Ct., Hammonton, NJ 08037, 1-(800) 731-4714 or fax 1-(800)
591-6391 or click here: www.practicumstrategies.com
"A Review of Basic Embalming
Procedures"
"Business Morals and Ethics and The Funeral Director"
"Complying with the Funeral Rule"
"Computer Concepts for the Funeral Home"
"Computers A-Z for the Funeral Home"
"Coping With Stress As A Funeral Director"
"CREMATION: The Concept, The Client, The Caring"
"CREMATION: The Process"
"Dealing with Communicable Diseases & AIDS"
"Embalming Chemistry"
"Employee Recruitment and Retention in Funeral Service"
"Ethics for Funeral Directors"
"Everyday Ethics in Funeral Service"
"Funeral Profession and Consumer Behavior"
"Funeral Values - The Year 2000 and Beyond"
"Grief 101 for Funeral Directors"
"Hazardous Chemicals/Toxic Substances"
"Helping Skills for 2003"
"How Do We Tell The Children?"
"Intermediate Marketing for Funeral Directors"
"Introduction To Accounting for the Funeral Director"
"Job Burnout in Funeral Service"
"Living with the FTC's Funeral Rule"
"Managing Stress in Funeral Service"
"Marketing 101 for Funeral Directors: Why Everything You Know About
Marketing Won't Work For Your Business; And Why It's Not Your Fault"
"Moral Dilemmas Facing the Funeral Profession"
"Motivation and Coaching For the Successful Funeral Director"
"OSHA for Small Business"
"OSHA: A Practical Guide for Funeral Service Professionals"
"Power Communication for Funeral Professionals"
"Preneed Funeral Planning A Basic Course for the Funeral Prof."
"Pre-Planning For Funeral Home Business Interruptions"
"Professional Communications with Client Families, Part 1"
"Professional Ethics in a Changing Environment"
"Sacred/Sensitive.....and Sane"
"Stress and the Funeral Home Environment"
"The Grieving Process "
"The Vanguard of Competition for the Funeral Profession"
"Understanding & Completing the Certificate of Death"
"Universal Precautions: A Review for Embalmers & Funeral
Directors"
The "Grief Resolution for Co-Workers" program is sponsored by: Lowell Pugh, c/o
H. L. Pugh and Associates Consulting, 400 Chestnut, Box 145, Golden City,
Missouri 64748-0145, (417) 537-4412. It has been approved for two (2) hours credit.
The "Understanding Casket
Components" correspondence
program is sponsored by Gary
Sokoll, 9721 Rail Road, Midwest
City, Oklahoma 73130, (405) 732-0812. It has been approved for one (1) hour credit.
The
following fourteen (14) Independent Study Correspondence Courses
are provided by the Thanos
Institute. For more information
contact: Mary E. Rizzo, c/o Thanos Institute, P.O. Box 1928, Buffalo,
New York, 14231-1928, 1-800-742-8257. Email is: mrizzo@thanosinstitute.com
Website is: www.thanosinstitute.com
All programs have been approved for three (3) hours credit:
"A Student Dies, A School Mourns..Are
You Prepared?"
"Bereavement and the Funeral Director "
"Children and the Funeral Rite "
"Death of an Infant "
"Embalming"
"Embalming Management "
"Ethics In Funeral Service "
"Forensic Pathology for Funeral Directors "
"Funeral Customs Past and Present "
"Funeral Service Management "
"Grief Counseling for the Funeral Director"
"Management Skills for Funeral Directors "
"Organ, Tissue Donation and the Funeral Director" ADDED
8-8-11
"OSHA Compliance and FTC Rules"
" Restorative Art & Cosmetology"
"Unexpected, Traumatic Death and the Funeral Director "
The following on-line home study programs have been approved as
listed below. They are sponsored by 360 Training, Austin, Texas. For additional
information contact: www.funeralcampus.com.
Approved
for one (1) hour each:
Hazard Communication - Basic
Hazard Communication - Advanced
Homeland Security - Emergency
Response
Industrial Hygiene - Basic
Industrial Hygiene - Advanced
Material Handling & Storage -
Advanced
OSHA Training Requirements &
Techniques
OSHA - Safety & Health
Programs - Advanced
Personal Protective Equipment -
Advanced
Approved for two (2) hours each:
Bloodborne Pathogens - Advanced
Estate Planning
Ethics for Insurance Professionals
Formaldehyde & Needle Stick
Safety
Hazardous Materials
Hazardous Materials - Advanced
OSHA - OSHA Act & Standards
Approved for three (3) hours each:
Dealing with Conflict &
Confrontation
Dealing with Difficult People
Ethics for Insurance
Professionals - Advanced
Industrial Emergency
Response - Hazmat First Response
Medicare
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