Michigan Mortuary Science Exam 2023 Questions and Answers

board - Answer- in each article which deals with a specific occupation, the agency created in that article composed principally of members of the regulated occupation. censure - Answer- an expression of disapproval of a licensee's or registrant's professional conduct competence - Answer- a degree of expertise which enables a person to engage in an occupation at a level which meets or exceeds minimal standards of acceptable practice complaint - Answer- an oral or written grievance Licensee - Answer- a person that is licensed or required to be licensed limitation - Answer- Some factor that restricts the scope of activity or accomplishment. Registrant - Answer- a person that is registered registration - Answer- the document issued to a person that enables the person to use a designated title, which use would be otherwise prohibited Reinstatement - Answer- the granting of a license or registration, with or without limitations or conditions, to a person whose license or registration has been revoked. Relicensure - Answer- the granting of a license to a person whose license has lapsed for failure to renew the license within 60 days after the expiration date. Reregistration - Answer- the granting of a registration to a person whose registration has lapsed for failure to renew the registration within 60 days after the expiration date. burial right - Answer- the right of earth interment casket - Answer- rigid container which is designed for the encasement of human remains and which is usually constructed of wood, metal, fiberglass, plastic, or like material, and ornamented and lined with fabric. catafalque - Answer- an ornamental or decorative object or structure placed beneath, over, or around a casket, vault, or a dead human body before final disposition of the dead human body. Columbarium - Answer- a building or other aboveground structure that is affixed to land and is a permanent repository for cremated human remains. contract price - Answer- money and other property to be paid as total compensation to a contract seller or provider for the funeral or cemetery services or merchandise, or both, to be performed or furnished under a prepaid contract, late payment penalties, payments required to be made to a governmental agency at the time the contract is entered into, and income earned on the funds. Contract beneficiary - Answer- an individual specified or implied in a prepaid contract for whom the funeral or cemetery services or merchandise shall be performed or furnished after death. Contract buyer - Answer- an individual, including a contract beneficiary, who purchases merchandise or funeral or cemetery services pursuant to a prepaid contract. Contract seller - Answer- a person who sells, makes available, or provides prepaid contracts. Depository - Answer- a state or nationally chartered bank or state or federally chartered savings and loan association, savings bank, or credit union whose deposits are insured by an agency of the United States government under the laws of this state or the United States. Escrow agent - Answer- a person who holds, invests, and disburses principal and income from the funds received under a prepaid contract. funds - Answer- means all money or other consideration actually received from a contract buyer by a contract seller or provider or an assignee from the contract buyer in connection with any aspect of the sale of a prepaid contract, including finance charges Funeral services - Answer- services customarily performed by a mortuary science licensee who is licensed pursuant to article 18 of the occupational code, 1980 PA 299, MCL 339.1801 to 339.1812. Guaranteed price contract - Answer- a prepaid contract under which funds received are held pursuant to an escrow agreement. Nonguaranteed price contract - Answer- a prepaid contract under which funds received are held pursuant to an escrow agreement between a contract seller or provider and a contract buyer and are applied to the cost of the merchandise or funeral or cemetery services anitomical gift - Answer- a donation of all or part of a human body to take effect after the donor's death for the purpose of transplantation, therapy, research, or education. disinterested witness - Answer- a person who is not related to the individual making or revoking an organ donation decision and who would not be a recipient Document of Gift - Answer- The Donor's legal record of the gift of tissue permitting and defining the scope of the postmortem recovery and use of tissues for transplantation, therapy, research and/or education. Fetal death - Answer- the death of a fetus that has completed at least 20 weeks of gestation or weighs at least 400 grams. Fetal death includes a stillbirth. Fetal remains - Answer- a dead fetus or part of a dead fetus that has completed at least 10 weeks of gestation or has reached the stage of development that, upon visual inspection of the fetus or part of the fetus, the head, torso, or extremities appear to be supported by skeletal or cartilaginous structures. Final disposition - Answer- the burial, cremation, interment, or other legal disposition of a dead body or fetal remains. Vital record - Answer- a certificate or registration of birth, death, marriage, or divorce; an acknowledgment of parentage; or related data. addended record - Answer- a replacement record containing the information as recorded on the registered record plus information added as an addendum to the record Amended record - Answer- a replacement record which is marked "amended," which contains the date of the amendment, and which identifies the items amended. Infectious agent - Answer- a pathogen that is sufficiently virulent so that if a susceptible host is exposed to the pathogen in an adequate concentration and through a portal of entry, the result could be transmission of disease to a human. Medical waste - Answer- means any of the following that are not generated from a household, a farm operation or other agricultural business, a home for the aged, or a home health care agency: (a) Cultures and stocks of infectious agents and associated biologicals, including laboratory waste, biological production wastes, discarded live and attenuated vaccines, culture dishes, and related devices. (b) Liquid human and animal waste, including blood and blood products and body fluids, but not including urine or materials stained with blood or body fluids. (c) Pathological waste. (d) Sharps. (e) Contaminated wastes from animals that have been exposed to agents infectious to humans, these being primarily research animals. Pathological waste - Answer- human organs, tissues, body parts other than teeth, products of conception, and fluids removed by trauma or during surgery, autopsy, or other medical procedure, and not fixed in formaldehyde. Funeral establishment - Answer- a place of business used in the care and preparation for burial or transportation of a dead human body Practice of embalming - Answer- Disinfecting or preserving or attempting to disinfect or preserve dead human bodies by replacing certain body fluids with preserving and disinfecting chemicals Practice of funeral directing - Answer- engaging in or representing oneself as engaging in the supervising of the burial and disposal of a dead human body; maintaining a funeral establishment for the preparation, disposition, and care of a dead human body; or using, in connection with the user's name or funeral establishment Practice of mortuary science - Answer- the practice of embalming, or the practice of funeral directing, or both. Resident trainee - Answer- a person engaged in learning the practice of funeral directing and/or embalming under instruction, direction, or personal supervision of a duly licensed funeral director and/or embalmer Authorized activities of licensee - Answer- may disinfect or preserve a dead human body, entirely or in part, by the use of a chemical substance, fluid, or gas in the body of by the introduction of a chemical, substance, fluid, or gas into the body by a vascular or hypodermic injection, or by direct application into an organ or cavity in preparation for burial or disposal. The person may direct the burial or disposal of a dead human body and may maintain a funeral establishment for the preparation and disposition, or for the care of a dead human body and may, in connection with the person's name or the name of the funeral establishment use the words "funeral director", "undertaker", "mortician", "mortuary science", or a word of similar meaning as approved by the department. when are resident trainee reports submitted? - Answer- semiannually on January 15 and July 15 A funeral establishment shall contain a preparation room equipped with what? - Answer- tile, cement, or composition floor and necessary drainage and ventilation, and contain each necessary instrument or supply for the preparation and embalming of a dead human body for burial, transportation, or other disposition. A change in the ownership or location of the funeral establishment does what? - Answer- automatically cancels its license shall not be transported or accepted for transportation unless they have been prepared for shipment by being thoroughly embalmed and disinfected by arterial and cavity injection with an accepted embalming fluid. - Answer- The bodies of those who have died of diphtheria, meningococcic infections, plague, poliomyelitis, scarlet fever, or smallpox disposition of a dead fetus is required... - Answer- regardless of the gestational age of the fetus when is a fetal death reportable? - Answer- it must be delivered, 20 weeks gestation and reaching at least 400 grams Burial Transit Permit - Answer- A permit required for the transportation and disposition of a dead human body. Burial Transit Permit for Disposition of a Dead Fetus - Answer- A permit required for the transportation and disposition of a dead fetus Common Carrier - Answer- A carrier that is compensated for providing transportation to the general public Disinterment-Reinterment Permit - Answer- A written authorization to disinter and reinter a dead human body. Disinterment of cremated remains; opening casket; permit not required. The FTC Funeral Rule - Answer- allows you to compare prices among funeral homes, and makes it possible for you to select the funeral arrangements you want at the home you use. The Funeral Rule gives you the right to: - Answer- Buy only what you want, give price over the phone, get a written itemized price list when you visit a funeral home, casket price lists, outer burial container price lists, written statement, explanatory, alternative container, provide funeral home with the casket or urn bought elsewhere. who provides flags for veterans graves? - Answer- the county where must flags and flag holders for veterans graves be manufactured? - Answer- in the united states, preferably in the state of Michigan Sharps disposal - Answer- Placement in rigid, puncture-resistant containers that are appropriately labeled and transported to a sanitary landfill in a manner that retains the integrity of the container. Incineration or decontamination and grinding that renders the objects unrecognizable. Ground sharps shall be placed in a sealed, rupture-resistant container and transported to a sanitary landfill. A process approved by the department. Pathological waste disposal - Answer- (i) Incineration or cremation. (ii) Grinding and flushing into a sanitary sewer. (iii) Burial in a cemetery, if transported in leakproof containers of sufficient integrity to prevent rupture. (iv) Grinding until rendered unrecognizable, stored in closed, puncture-resistant, properly labeled containers, and, if not in liquid form, disposed of in a sanitary landfill. (v) A process approved by the department. board member term - Answer- 4 years term of a board member commences on what date? - Answer- July 1 how long does a funeral director have to file a death certificate after a death? - Answer- 72 hours who issues burial permits? - Answer- the local registrar who is the board director appointed by? - Answer- the governor how many voting members on the board - Answer- 9 how long after a vacancy does a person have to be appointed to the board? - Answer- 60 days how many board terms can a person serve? - Answer- 2 max how many times is the board required to meet annually? - Answer- at least twice after a lapse in license how long before a licensee needs to retest? - Answer- 3 years The board must respond to a complaint in how many days? - Answer- 15 first offense article 6 fines - Answer- misdemeanor-fines ranging $5,000-$25,000 and up to a year in prison or both second offense article 6 fines - Answer- misdemeanor- fines ranging $5,000-$25,000 and up to 2 years in prison or both a funeral establishment shall be operated by who? - Answer- The holder of a mortuary science license how long shall preneed records be kept? - Answer- 36 months after fulfillment of all contractual obligations when are preneed records due? - Answer- july 1