This course is approved for 8- hours of continuing education credits by Missouri POST and 5.6 hours by the American Board of Medicolegal Death Investigators -ABMDI
Who Should Take This Course
This course takes a comprehensive deep dive into the practice of death notification. The instructor discusses the impact a notification has on a survivor and the legal and moral obligations the notifier bears. Further, the course will discuss how deferring agencies; police, coroners, medical staff, and ems lack training in this area and how what training they do receive will many times be at odds with other agencies ' investigative objectives.
The course will also cover the next-of-kin hierarchy and why this it’s legally important and why it’s important to understand the idea of do-no-harm when making notifications. The course will also discuss safety concerns, best practices, and policy development when it comes to making death notifications.
Lastly, the instructor spends time discussing the difference and best practices when making specialized notifications such as in-custody death, law enforcement death, child death, high profile deaths, and others.
Our online video training and is designed to be interactive with students by random quizzes and, in some cases, a final exam. Student login times, location IP, and activity time within the course are tracked per student by Mixpanel to verify the time spent in the course if needed. Videos cannot be fast-forwarded or skipped, and testing cannot be done until the videos are fully watched.
Many of the videos have a unique symbol or picture that will appear prominently in the video and is part of the test questions, this will ensure the video has been watched, quizzes must be passed with a 100% so missing the proof of watch image will ensure the quiz is not passed and thus the student cannot move forward in the course. Also, all quizzes are presented in random question-answer order so each quiz attempt will have questions and answers in an order different than previously shown. This prevents students from sharing answers with other students.
Certificates will only be available for print after the successful completion of the course material. Each certificate will indicate that it was an online training and will note the approval control number and the CLEE hours given.
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Downloadable Presentation Slides
Learning Objectives and Course Content Plan (10 minutes)
Defining Death Notifications (15 minutes)
Coroner and Medical Examiner Jurisdiction (5 minutes)
The problem with current death notification practices (6 minutes)
Quiz: Insufficient Training and Best Practices
Absent or Insufficient Training - Part 1 (11 minutes)
Absent or Insufficient Training - Part 2 (9 minutes)
Lack of Best Practices Part 1 ( 13 minutes)
Lack of Best Practices Part 2 (18 minutes)
Quiz: Insufficient Training and Best Practices
How Death Notifications Can Cause Harm (12minutes)
Do No Harm - Healthcare Workers (12 minutes)
Do No Harm - Emergency Services and Law Enforcement (5 minutes)
Do No Harm - What Families Expect from Healthcare Notifiers (6 minutes)
Do No Harm - What Families Expect from Coroner-Medical Examiners (5 minutes)
Do No Harm - What Families Expect From Social Workers, Funeral Homes, and Religious Leaders (6 minutes)
Quiz: Do no Harm
Aftereffects of Notifications (10 minutes)
Safety Consideration Part 1 (13 minutes)
Safety Considerations Part 2 - Situational Awareness (11 minutes)
Quiz: Safety Considerations
Next-of-Kin Hierarchy (13 minutes)
Identifying and Locating Next-of-Kin (9 minutes)
Quiz: Next-of-Kin Considerations
Determining the Notification Team (20 minutes)
Ensuring Positive Identification of Decedent (10 minutes)
Survivor Questions and HIPPA Considerations (8minutes)
Preparing for Notification Environments (7 minutes)
Preparing v Timeliness (3 minutes)
Quiz: Preparing for Death Notification
Arrival and Notification (17 minutes)
Notification Language (33 minutes)
Best Practices (12 minutes)
Quiz: Arrival and Notification
Aftercare- Notifier Well-Being (6 minutes)
Homicide Notifications (5 minutes)
Suicide Notifications (7 minutes)
Child Death Notifications (2 minutes)
In-Group Notifications (4 minutes)
In Custody Deaths (3 minutes)
Medical Error Deaths, Workplace Deaths, and Mass Casualty (10minutes)
Thank You and Contact Information (1 minute)
Missouri Law Enforcement CLEE Request
Yes. This course is open to students who are wanting to enter the field of death investigation as well as working professionals. It is our goal to help you prepare for the job you are wanting by providing nationally accepted training.
You will have access to the course material for six months. This, however, does not take into account natural disasters or a major interruption in business.
The course is an all-inclusive course. So, each student will receive a certificate at the end of all course work denoting credits and approval numbers along with the date of completion.
If you have other questions, please email us or call our academy directly at 1-888-556-0177.
The refund formula is as follows: Students may request a refund of an online course tuition prior to 30-days after purchase and if less than 50% of the course content has been accessed. Refunds are calculated based on the percentage of accessed content. For example, if 10% completed then a 90% refund will be issued, if 25% completed is 75% refund, and so on. *No refund will be given after 30 days or if completion is 50% or more* Multiple payments for the same course: In cases where the student made extra payment (same course bought multiple times) for the same course, a refund will be issued upon request. There will be a 3.7% transaction cost charged by credit card processor per transaction. All online training courses are tested extensively on all types of systems, browsers, and devices. We can assist you to get started with the course if you are having any trouble.
