GA Funeral Juris flashcards
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- Board of Funeral Service
- The Georgia state board that licenses and disciplines funeral directors, embalmers, establishments, and crematories, and adopts rules enforcing the funeral service statutes.
- Funeral establishment license
- A facility license required to operate a funeral home; the establishment must have a licensed funeral director in charge and must be inspected as required by board rule.
- Grounds for discipline
- Bases on which the board may act include fraud, misrepresentation, unprofessional conduct, impaired practice, and practicing without a current license.
- Continuing education requirement
- A condition of biennial renewal; licensees must complete the required hours, retain certificates, and produce them if the board audits or investigates.
- General price list
- A written, itemized list of goods and services with prices, offered to anyone who inquires in person about arrangements and retained by the consumer.
- Good-faith estimate
- A written estimate of the total cost of selected goods and services, provided before selection, itemizing charges and identifying items that may change.
- Embalming disclosure
- The requirement that consumers be told embalming is not generally required by law and that refrigeration or direct disposition may be alternatives where permitted.
- Fiduciary handling of funds
- Client funds, especially preneed payments, must be held in trust or escrow as required, not commingled with the firm's operating funds.
- Common carotid site
- The standard primary arterial injection site, paired with drainage from the internal jugular vein, used when the head and neck are accessible.
- Femoral site
- The standard secondary injection and drainage site, using the femoral artery and vein, used when the primary site is inaccessible or when multi-point injection is needed.
- Fluid index
- Grams of formaldehyde per 100 mL of concentrate; a 20-index fluid contains 20 grams per 100 mL before dilution.
- Tank strength
- The percentage of formaldehyde in the diluted solution actually injected, determined by the dilution ratio rather than by the concentrate index alone.
- Dilution formula
- Concentrate volume equals (desired tank strength percent times tank volume) divided by concentrate index percent; used to mix the injection solution.
- Postmortem changes
- The sequence of algor mortis, livor mortis, rigor mortis, and putrefaction, each of which informs fluid choice, volume, and urgency of embalming.
- Cavity embalming
- Treatment of the thoracic and abdominal viscera with cavity fluid through a trocar, performed after arterial injection to complete preservation.
- Funeral Rule
- The FTC rule requiring itemized price lists, written estimates, and prohibitions on misrepresenting that embalming or a casket is legally required.
- Preneed trust reconciliation
- A periodic comparison of total preneed contract liabilities to trust assets, identifying any deficiency that must be funded and documented.
- Burial-transit permit
- A permit issued before remains are moved for final disposition; it must accompany the remains and be filed with the appropriate registrar.
- Chain of custody
- A documented record of each transfer of remains, showing date, time, handler, and identity verification from removal through final disposition.
- Cremation authorization
- A written authorization signed by the legally authorized person, verified by the crematory before the cremation process begins.
- Conflict of interest
- A financial or personal interest that could bias professional judgment, such as referral payments or undisclosed supplier commissions, which must be disclosed or avoided.
- Record falsification
- Altering, backdating, or fabricating a document such as an authorization or case record; treated as fraud and damaging to the credibility of the entire file.
- Supervisory liability
- A licensee who permits an unlicensed person to perform licensed functions is liable for that act even without personally performing it.
- Humectant
- An agent that retains moisture in tissue, used in higher proportion for dehydrated or emaciated cases to reduce excessive firming and drying.
- Astringent fluid
- A fluid that reduces tissue moisture and swelling, used in edematous cases together with lower index and firm drainage technique.
- Guaranteed preneed price
- A contract term under which the provider bears the risk of future price increases, so no additional charge is made at the time of need.
- Non-guaranteed preneed
- A contract term under which the family pays any difference between funds held and the price at the time of need.
- Exposure control plan
- A written plan covering bloodborne pathogen risks, protective equipment, training, vaccination offers, and post-exposure procedures for staff.
- Safety data sheet
- A document summarizing the hazards, handling, and first-aid measures for a chemical such as formaldehyde, required to be accessible to staff.
- Medical examiner referral
- The requirement to refer suspected homicide, suicide, accident, unattended, or unexplained deaths to the medical examiner before certification and disposition.
- Right of disposition
- The statutory priority, beginning with the surviving spouse, that determines who may authorize disposition and who bears reasonable disposition costs.
- Hypodermic injection
- Localized injection of embalming fluid into tissue that cannot be reached through the vascular system, such as fingertips, ears, or separated tissue.