NJ CALA Certification Question and Answer
(2026/2027) | Updated Questions and Correct
Answers | A+ Verified
• The functions or tasks for self-care, which are performed either independently or with
supervision or assistance, such as: dressing, bathing, toileting, transfer, locomotion, bed
mobility, and eating. -✓✓ ADLs (Activity of Daily Living)
• A coordinated array of supportive personal and health services 24 hours per day, to
residents who have been assessed to need these services including persons who
require nursing home level care. It promotes resident self direction and participation in
decisions that emphasize independence, individuality, privacy, dignity, and homelike
surroundings. -✓✓ Assisted Living
• Limits places on a resident's choice as a result of an assessment, in accordance with
N.J.A.C. 8:36-5.18, which indicates that such resident's choices or preference place the
resident or others at a risk of harm or lead to consequences which violate the norms of
the facility or program or the rights of others. -✓✓ Bounded Choice
• A facility which is licensed by the Department of Health and Senior Services to provide
room and board and to assure that assisted living services are available when needed,
to four or more adults unrelated to the proprietor. Residential units in this type of facility
have no more than two residents and have a lockable door on the unit entrance. -✓✓
CPCH (Comprehensive Personal Care Home)
• A facility that has received a certificate of authority pursuant to the _________ and
Financial Disclosure Act, N.J.S.A. 52:27D-300 et seq. -✓✓ CCRC (Continuing Care
Retirement Community)
• A unit-of-use package prepared by a pharmacist for a specific resident comprising a
series of containers and containing two or more prescribed sold oral dosage forms, and
so designed or labeled as to indicate the day and time, or period of time, that the
contents within each container are to be taken. -✓✓ Customized Resident Medication
Package
• A person appointed by a court of competent jurisdiction to handle the affairs and
protect the rights of any resident of the facility who has been declared a mental
incompetent. This does not include a person affiliated with the facility, its operations or
personnel, unless so ordered by the court. -✓✓ Guardian
• Any service provided to a resident of an assisted living or comprehensive personal
care home that is ordered by a physician and required to be provided or delegated by a
licensed, registered or certified health care professional. -✓✓ Health Care Service
,• A program of palliative and supportive services provided to terminally ill persons and
their families in the form of physical, psychological, social, and spiritual care. -✓✓
Hospice
• The process of balancing resident choice and independence with the health and safety
of the resident and other persons in the facility or program. If a resident's preference or
decision places the resident or others at risk and is likely to lead to adverse
consequences, such risks or consequences are discussed with the resident, and, if the
resident agrees, a resident representative, and a formal plan to avoid or reduce
negative or adverse outcomes is negotiated, in accordance with the provisions of
N.J.A.C. 8:36-5.18. -✓✓ Managed Risk
• The written formal plan developed in consideration of shared responsibility, bounded
choice and assisted living values and negotiated between the resident and the facility or
program to avoid or reduce the risk of adverse outcomes which may occur in an
assisted living environment. -✓✓ Manage Risk Agreement
• A procedure in which a prescribed medication or biological is given to a resident by an
authorized individual in accordance with all laws and regulations governing such
procedures. -✓✓ Medication Administration
• 1.) Removing an individual dose from a previously dispensed, properly labeled
container (including a unit dose or unit-of-use container).
2.) Verifying it with the prescriber's orders.
3.) Giving the individual dose to the resident.
4.) Seeing that the resident takes it (if oral).
5.) Recording the required information, including but not limited to the method of
administration, time administered, initials of individuals who administered the
medication, and effect of the medication when "PRN" or as-needed medications are
administered. -✓✓ Process of Medication Administration
• The self-worth of a resident. -✓✓ Dignity
• The support and enhancement of resident capabilities and facilitation of resident
abilities so that the resident's preferences and choices may be implemented within a
barrier-free environment. -✓✓ Independence
• Each resident's unique needs, capabilities, personalities, backgrounds and
preferences. -✓✓ Individuality
• An individual resident record that contains, but is not limited to: resident name, date of
birth, diagnosis(es), age, physician, name and medication strength, dosage form, route
of administration, frequency, date and time of administration, initials of individual
administering the medication, a section containing the full signature and title of each
,individual who initials it, date medication ordered, stop date if appliacable, allergies, and
all other professionally acceptable information that is appropriate. -✓✓ MAR (Medication
Administration Record)
• A MATCEP or Medication Aide Training Competency and Evaluation Program is a
department approved minimum ____________ training course conducted by a
Department approved registered professional nurse and registered pharmacist, to
instruct CNA, CHHA, or PCAs, in the administration of medications to residents, within
assisted living residences, comprehensive personal care homes and assisted living
programs. -✓✓ 30-hour
• An individual requires this as defined by N.J.A.C. 8:85-2.1. It is provided to individuals
who have chronic medical condition(s) resulting in moderate to severe impairments in
physical, behavioral, cognitive, and/or psychosocial functioning. It is determined by a
registered professional nurse and identified in a plan of care. -✓✓ Nursing Home-Level
Care
• In accordance with N.J.A.C. 8:43E-6, means the assessment of pain and, if
appropriate, treatment in order to assure the needs of patients or residents of health
care facilities who experience problems with pain are met. Treatment of pain may
include the use of medication or application of other modalities and medical devices
such as, but not limited to, heat or cold, massage, transcutaneous electrical nerve
stimulation (TENS), acupuncture, and neurolytic techniques such as radiofrequency
coagulation and cryotherapy. -✓✓ Pain Management
• A resident's degree of control over a specific physical area and/or time; levels of
intimacy with family and others; and communication and contact with others outside the
facility or program environment. -✓✓ Privacy
• Residents (and if the resident wishes the resident's family) and providers of assisted
living services share responsibility for planning and decision making affecting residents.
To participate fully in this, residents shaw be provided with clear and understandable
information about the possible consequences of their decision-making, in accordance
with the provisions of N.J.A.C. 8:35-5.18(a)2. -✓✓ Shared Responsibility
• Another term for resident census. -✓✓ Total Bed Complement
• A system in which medications are delivered to the residents areas in single unit
packaging, and which meets the following criteria:
1.) Each medication shall be individually wrapped and labeled with the generic or trade
(brand) name and strength of medication, lot number or reference code, expiration date,
and manufacturer's name, and shall be ready for administration to the resident.
2.) Cautionary instructions shall appear on the resident's record of medication
administration, and the system shall include provisions for noting additional information,
, including but no limited to, special times or routes of administration and storage
conditions.
3.) Commercial repackages shall comply with 21 CFR 201.1, incorporated herein by
reference, as amended and supplemented, and N.J.A.C. 8:39. -✓✓ Unit Dose Drug
Distribution System
• A system of in which medications are delivered to the resident areas either in single
unity packaging, bingo or punch cards, blister or strip packs, or other system where
each medication is physically separate. Individually labeled unit dose medications may
be combined in a "bingo or punch card" to create a unit-of-dose drug distribution
system. -✓✓ Unit-of-Use
• An assisted living facility shall indicate within 36 months of after licensure, at least
______________ of the facility's residents shall be individuals with nursing home-level
care. This percentage shall be computed based upon the number of residents days per
calendar year and may include direct admissions as well as maintained residents with
nursing home-level of care needs. -✓✓ 20 percent
• Each assisted living, comprehensive personal care home, and assisted living program
will be assessed and inspected __________________. -✓✓ Biennially
• This may be made to a facility at any time by authorized staff of the Department . Such
may include, but not limited to, the review of all facility documents and resident records
and conferences with residents. -✓✓ Survey Visits
• A licensure shall be granted for a period of one year or less as determined by the
Department. -✓✓ Facility Licensure
• The license, unless suspended or revoked, shall be renewed annually on the original
license date, or within 30 days thereafter as of the original licensure date. The facility
will receive a request for renewal fee 30 days prior to the expiration of the license. A
renewal license will not be issued unless the licensure fee is received by the
Department. -✓✓ Facility Licensure Renewal
• The facility shall notify each resident, the resident's physician, and any guarantors of
payment at least 30 days prior to the voluntary surrender of a license, or as directed
under an order of revocation, refusal to renew, or suspension of license. In such cases,
the license shall be returned to the Long-Term Care Licensing Program of the
Department within 7 working days after the voluntary surrender, revocation, non-
renewal, or suspension of license. -✓✓ Surrender of Facility License
• 1.) 21 years or older; 2.) Possess a high school diploma or equivalent; 3.) hold a CALA
or LNHA license. -✓✓ CALA Qualifications
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• The functions or tasks for self-care, which are performed either independently or with
supervision or assistance, such as: dressing, bathing, toileting, transfer, locomotion, bed
mobility, and eating. -✓✓ ADLs (Activity of Daily Living)
• A coordinated array of supportive personal and health services 24 hours per day, to
residents who have been assessed to need these services including persons who
require nursing home level care. It promotes resident self direction and participation in
decisions that emphasize independence, individuality, privacy, dignity, and homelike
surroundings. -✓✓ Assisted Living
• Limits places on a resident's choice as a result of an assessment, in accordance with
N.J.A.C. 8:36-5.18, which indicates that such resident's choices or preference place the
resident or others at a risk of harm or lead to consequences which violate the norms of
the facility or program or the rights of others. -✓✓ Bounded Choice
• A facility which is licensed by the Department of Health and Senior Services to provide
room and board and to assure that assisted living services are available when needed,
to four or more adults unrelated to the proprietor. Residential units in this type of facility
have no more than two residents and have a lockable door on the unit entrance. -✓✓
CPCH (Comprehensive Personal Care Home)
• A facility that has received a certificate of authority pursuant to the _________ and
Financial Disclosure Act, N.J.S.A. 52:27D-300 et seq. -✓✓ CCRC (Continuing Care
Retirement Community)
• A unit-of-use package prepared by a pharmacist for a specific resident comprising a
series of containers and containing two or more prescribed sold oral dosage forms, and
so designed or labeled as to indicate the day and time, or period of time, that the
contents within each container are to be taken. -✓✓ Customized Resident Medication
Package
• A person appointed by a court of competent jurisdiction to handle the affairs and
protect the rights of any resident of the facility who has been declared a mental
incompetent. This does not include a person affiliated with the facility, its operations or
personnel, unless so ordered by the court. -✓✓ Guardian
• Any service provided to a resident of an assisted living or comprehensive personal
care home that is ordered by a physician and required to be provided or delegated by a
licensed, registered or certified health care professional. -✓✓ Health Care Service
,• A program of palliative and supportive services provided to terminally ill persons and
their families in the form of physical, psychological, social, and spiritual care. -✓✓
Hospice
• The process of balancing resident choice and independence with the health and safety
of the resident and other persons in the facility or program. If a resident's preference or
decision places the resident or others at risk and is likely to lead to adverse
consequences, such risks or consequences are discussed with the resident, and, if the
resident agrees, a resident representative, and a formal plan to avoid or reduce
negative or adverse outcomes is negotiated, in accordance with the provisions of
N.J.A.C. 8:36-5.18. -✓✓ Managed Risk
• The written formal plan developed in consideration of shared responsibility, bounded
choice and assisted living values and negotiated between the resident and the facility or
program to avoid or reduce the risk of adverse outcomes which may occur in an
assisted living environment. -✓✓ Manage Risk Agreement
• A procedure in which a prescribed medication or biological is given to a resident by an
authorized individual in accordance with all laws and regulations governing such
procedures. -✓✓ Medication Administration
• 1.) Removing an individual dose from a previously dispensed, properly labeled
container (including a unit dose or unit-of-use container).
2.) Verifying it with the prescriber's orders.
3.) Giving the individual dose to the resident.
4.) Seeing that the resident takes it (if oral).
5.) Recording the required information, including but not limited to the method of
administration, time administered, initials of individuals who administered the
medication, and effect of the medication when "PRN" or as-needed medications are
administered. -✓✓ Process of Medication Administration
• The self-worth of a resident. -✓✓ Dignity
• The support and enhancement of resident capabilities and facilitation of resident
abilities so that the resident's preferences and choices may be implemented within a
barrier-free environment. -✓✓ Independence
• Each resident's unique needs, capabilities, personalities, backgrounds and
preferences. -✓✓ Individuality
• An individual resident record that contains, but is not limited to: resident name, date of
birth, diagnosis(es), age, physician, name and medication strength, dosage form, route
of administration, frequency, date and time of administration, initials of individual
administering the medication, a section containing the full signature and title of each
,individual who initials it, date medication ordered, stop date if appliacable, allergies, and
all other professionally acceptable information that is appropriate. -✓✓ MAR (Medication
Administration Record)
• A MATCEP or Medication Aide Training Competency and Evaluation Program is a
department approved minimum ____________ training course conducted by a
Department approved registered professional nurse and registered pharmacist, to
instruct CNA, CHHA, or PCAs, in the administration of medications to residents, within
assisted living residences, comprehensive personal care homes and assisted living
programs. -✓✓ 30-hour
• An individual requires this as defined by N.J.A.C. 8:85-2.1. It is provided to individuals
who have chronic medical condition(s) resulting in moderate to severe impairments in
physical, behavioral, cognitive, and/or psychosocial functioning. It is determined by a
registered professional nurse and identified in a plan of care. -✓✓ Nursing Home-Level
Care
• In accordance with N.J.A.C. 8:43E-6, means the assessment of pain and, if
appropriate, treatment in order to assure the needs of patients or residents of health
care facilities who experience problems with pain are met. Treatment of pain may
include the use of medication or application of other modalities and medical devices
such as, but not limited to, heat or cold, massage, transcutaneous electrical nerve
stimulation (TENS), acupuncture, and neurolytic techniques such as radiofrequency
coagulation and cryotherapy. -✓✓ Pain Management
• A resident's degree of control over a specific physical area and/or time; levels of
intimacy with family and others; and communication and contact with others outside the
facility or program environment. -✓✓ Privacy
• Residents (and if the resident wishes the resident's family) and providers of assisted
living services share responsibility for planning and decision making affecting residents.
To participate fully in this, residents shaw be provided with clear and understandable
information about the possible consequences of their decision-making, in accordance
with the provisions of N.J.A.C. 8:35-5.18(a)2. -✓✓ Shared Responsibility
• Another term for resident census. -✓✓ Total Bed Complement
• A system in which medications are delivered to the residents areas in single unit
packaging, and which meets the following criteria:
1.) Each medication shall be individually wrapped and labeled with the generic or trade
(brand) name and strength of medication, lot number or reference code, expiration date,
and manufacturer's name, and shall be ready for administration to the resident.
2.) Cautionary instructions shall appear on the resident's record of medication
administration, and the system shall include provisions for noting additional information,
, including but no limited to, special times or routes of administration and storage
conditions.
3.) Commercial repackages shall comply with 21 CFR 201.1, incorporated herein by
reference, as amended and supplemented, and N.J.A.C. 8:39. -✓✓ Unit Dose Drug
Distribution System
• A system of in which medications are delivered to the resident areas either in single
unity packaging, bingo or punch cards, blister or strip packs, or other system where
each medication is physically separate. Individually labeled unit dose medications may
be combined in a "bingo or punch card" to create a unit-of-dose drug distribution
system. -✓✓ Unit-of-Use
• An assisted living facility shall indicate within 36 months of after licensure, at least
______________ of the facility's residents shall be individuals with nursing home-level
care. This percentage shall be computed based upon the number of residents days per
calendar year and may include direct admissions as well as maintained residents with
nursing home-level of care needs. -✓✓ 20 percent
• Each assisted living, comprehensive personal care home, and assisted living program
will be assessed and inspected __________________. -✓✓ Biennially
• This may be made to a facility at any time by authorized staff of the Department . Such
may include, but not limited to, the review of all facility documents and resident records
and conferences with residents. -✓✓ Survey Visits
• A licensure shall be granted for a period of one year or less as determined by the
Department. -✓✓ Facility Licensure
• The license, unless suspended or revoked, shall be renewed annually on the original
license date, or within 30 days thereafter as of the original licensure date. The facility
will receive a request for renewal fee 30 days prior to the expiration of the license. A
renewal license will not be issued unless the licensure fee is received by the
Department. -✓✓ Facility Licensure Renewal
• The facility shall notify each resident, the resident's physician, and any guarantors of
payment at least 30 days prior to the voluntary surrender of a license, or as directed
under an order of revocation, refusal to renew, or suspension of license. In such cases,
the license shall be returned to the Long-Term Care Licensing Program of the
Department within 7 working days after the voluntary surrender, revocation, non-
renewal, or suspension of license. -✓✓ Surrender of Facility License
• 1.) 21 years or older; 2.) Possess a high school diploma or equivalent; 3.) hold a CALA
or LNHA license. -✓✓ CALA Qualifications
