Embalming Laboratory

Catalog description

This is a laboratory class in the application of embalming techniques and procedures. In this laboratory the student will apply the basic principles of embalming taught in the lecture classes. Students will be able to demonstrate proper practical embalming techniques, including posing of features, raising of vessels, mixing embalming fluids, injecting fluids, aspiration and suturing incisions. Students must be certified as being proficient by a Qualified instructor on those techniqeus before a grade will be issued for completion of the course. Documentation of CURRENT, VALID health/hospitalization insurance is required. Apprentice Certification from the Alabama Board of Funeral Service is required. (F, Sp, Su)