NJ CALA [2026] | A+ VERIFIED ANSWERS | UPDATED
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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. -✓✓ANSWER: 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. -✓✓ANSWER: Assisted Living
• A process whereby individuals remain in their living environment despite the
physical and/mental decline and growing needs for supportive services that may
occur in the course of aging. -✓✓ANSWER: Aging in Place
• 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. -✓✓ANSWER:
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. -✓✓ANSWER: 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. -✓✓ANSWER: 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. -
✓✓ANSWER: 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. -✓✓ANSWER: 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. -
✓✓ANSWER: 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. -✓✓ANSWER: 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. -✓✓ANSWER: 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. -✓✓ANSWER: 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. -✓✓ANSWER: 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. -✓✓ANSWER: Process of Medication Administration
• The self-worth of a resident. -✓✓ANSWER: 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. -✓✓ANSWER: Independence
, • Each resident's unique needs, capabilities, personalities, backgrounds and
preferences. -✓✓ANSWER: 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. -✓✓ANSWER: 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. -✓✓ANSWER: 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. -
✓✓ANSWER: 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
ACTUAL | DETAILED STUDY GUIDE AND FINAL REVIEW
• 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. -✓✓ANSWER: 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. -✓✓ANSWER: Assisted Living
• A process whereby individuals remain in their living environment despite the
physical and/mental decline and growing needs for supportive services that may
occur in the course of aging. -✓✓ANSWER: Aging in Place
• 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. -✓✓ANSWER:
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. -✓✓ANSWER: 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. -✓✓ANSWER: 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. -
✓✓ANSWER: 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. -✓✓ANSWER: 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. -
✓✓ANSWER: 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. -✓✓ANSWER: 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. -✓✓ANSWER: 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. -✓✓ANSWER: 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. -✓✓ANSWER: 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. -✓✓ANSWER: Process of Medication Administration
• The self-worth of a resident. -✓✓ANSWER: 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. -✓✓ANSWER: Independence
, • Each resident's unique needs, capabilities, personalities, backgrounds and
preferences. -✓✓ANSWER: 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. -✓✓ANSWER: 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. -✓✓ANSWER: 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. -
✓✓ANSWER: 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
