subject: Funeral Homes - How To Manage Your Schedules Effortlessly [print this page] Funeral homes have a lot of responsibilities that they need to attend to. Basic responsibilities include receiving the body of the deceased, drafting up the necessary paperwork that includes an admission that they have indeed received the body. Their paperwork responsibilities also extend to signing the death certificate as proof to the government that the said citizen is no longer living. They are also required to prepare the corpse for burial by embalming - preserving the body from decomposing bacteria and fungi until it is six feet underground. Some funeral homes are even endowed with the responsibility of organizing funeral ceremonies. This is usually the case where the deceased are usually army soldiers who perished during a war. Sometimes, the dead are cremated - burnt to ashes by funeral homes upon request by their loved ones.
A funeral home has to come up with a system of conducting all these duties concurrently without getting any of them mixed up otherwise they risk facing lawsuits or getting major heat from unsatisfied family members. Sometimes, for a funeral home, managing all these responsibilities can be overwhelming especially if it's a public mortuary. These are usually the worst hit and most of the time they are understaffed. In most of these homes, multitasking is usually the order of the day. Embalmers, professionals who are meant to preserve the body from decomposing usually find themselves having to record incoming bodies into the funeral home registry and sometimes even carry out cremations - tasks that were imposed on them due to under-staffing.
Morticians reading this or anyone who wishes to join this profession needs to know that just because they happen to work in an understaffed center doesn't mean they should let the workload get to them. With the right tools they can be able to break down all of their responsibilities and cater to them all hassle free. The tools I'm referring to are scheduling systems - better known as online booking systems, appointment schedulers, appointment systems or simply online appointment scheduling systems.
In a nutshell, online booking systems or scheduling systems are systems that require the internet to be able to work. They also require electronic devices to be able to function. The electronic systems being discussed must support a browser and be able to connect to the internet. Laptops, desktops, smart phones and ipads are just a few examples. The systems serve several purposes. One purpose is to help the user to be able to schedule appointments easily with a client. Another purpose is to set up an easy to use communication channel that can be used by the user and the client to communicate. Finally, the systems are meant to remind the users of arranged meeting, their venues, timelines and other details that the user has set to be reminded.
In the case of funeral homes, staff members such as embalmers or even morticians who find themselves overworked can use these systems to help them coordinate their activities in advance so that they can handle them much better. Of all the features provided by these systems, the reminder feature can best help them to keep track of all their "duties" until they get more employees in the funeral home. They can set short timelines when they are to work on the embalming a corpse and when they are to cremate bodies. They can be reminded when these timelines elapse so they can change tasks.
Of course all this can be done from a simple mobile phone. Once the right scheduling software has been installed, everything else can be done on auto-pilot. Morticians, funeral directors and even embalmers who work in understaffed funeral homes need to take this queue and start working smart while they wait for "reinforcements" to arrive.
