This will depend on whether the decedent was under hospice care. If he was you would call the hospice nurse, who would come in and pronounce the patient. If you find a person dead and he's not under hospice care, then you would call 911. They will send a team of paramedics to come in and pronounce the patient. If the patient died naturally, the officer who responded to the scene will have you called the funeral home and wait with you until it comes over to the house to make the removal.
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If the person dies and a doctor is not present, then the coroners office will respond if you call the police.
A nurse reports first to the physician, and the nurse's supervisor or manager.
Mortuary of Death - 2001 was released on: USA: 17 September 2001 (limited)
No, a nurse should not verify a death that should be done by a doctor.
the morgue or mortuary
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The first thing you should do is contact the deceased's doctor to certify the person has died, then after a doctor has attended and certified the death, you should then contact a funeral director who will guide you on what you need to do next like register the death.
You must take that mortuary to a court in order to receive a court order. good luck
This is more of the medical question than a mortuary science question. There have been stories of people being pronounced dead yet later waking up in the hospital morgue, mortuary, or at the medical examiner's office. However, most stories you hear are of people going into the brink of death but waking up at the last moment. This is called a near-death experience.
Death of the Doctor has 128 pages.
Natural Death.
A Natural Death was created in 2007-02.
A deceased person's body may be kept at the morgue (suspicious death, murder, etc). But all bodies are eventually at the mortuary (funeral home).
Doctor Death - magazine - was created in 1935.