NURSING ANM AND GNM

Detailed explanation-1: -The classifications are natural, accident, suicide, homicide, undetermined, and pending. Only medical examiner’s and coroners may use all of the manners of death. Other certifiers must use natural or refer the death to the medical examiner.

Detailed explanation-2: -Manner of Death: Describes the way in which a death occurs, which may be Homicide, Suicide, Accidental, Natural or Undetermined.

Detailed explanation-3: -There are four ways a person can die, referred to in official terms as the manner of death: natural death, accidental death, suicidal death, and homi-cidal death.

Detailed explanation-4: -The manner of death is the determination of how the injury or disease leads to death. There are five manners of death (natural, accident, suicide, homicide, and undetermined).

Detailed explanation-5: -Thus, immediate post-mortem changes are dubbed as the “signs or indications of death.” Immediate changes include insensibility, loss of voluntary movements, cessation of respiration, cessation of circulation, and cessation of nervous system functions.