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.

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" 

"How We Die"
"The Art of Condolence"
"The Mourning Handbook"

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

"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"

"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 "