NJ CALA Exam Comprehensive
Questions with Verified
Answers Graded A+
Aging in Place - Answer: 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.
ADLs (Activity of Daily Living) - Answer: 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.
Assisted Living - Answer: 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.
Bounded Choice - Answer: 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.
CPCH (Comprehensive Personal Care Home) - Answer: 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.
CCRC (Continuing Care Retirement Community) - Answer: 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.
Customized Resident Medication Package - Answer: 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.
Guardian - Answer: 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.
Health Care Service - Answer: 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.
Hospice - Answer: 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.
Managed Risk - Answer: 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.
,Manage Risk Agreement - Answer: 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.
Medication Administration - Answer: 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.
Process of Medication Administration - Answer: 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.
Dignity - Answer: The self-worth of a resident.
Independence - Answer: 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.
Individuality - Answer: Each resident's unique needs, capabilities, personalities, backgrounds
and preferences.
MAR (Medication Administration Record) - Answer: 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.
30-hour - Answer: 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.
Nursing Home-Level Care - Answer: 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.
Pain Management - Answer: 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.
Privacy - Answer: 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.
Shared Responsibility - Answer: 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.
Questions with Verified
Answers Graded A+
Aging in Place - Answer: 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.
ADLs (Activity of Daily Living) - Answer: 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.
Assisted Living - Answer: 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.
Bounded Choice - Answer: 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.
CPCH (Comprehensive Personal Care Home) - Answer: 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.
CCRC (Continuing Care Retirement Community) - Answer: 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.
Customized Resident Medication Package - Answer: 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.
Guardian - Answer: 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.
Health Care Service - Answer: 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.
Hospice - Answer: 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.
Managed Risk - Answer: 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.
,Manage Risk Agreement - Answer: 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.
Medication Administration - Answer: 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.
Process of Medication Administration - Answer: 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.
Dignity - Answer: The self-worth of a resident.
Independence - Answer: 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.
Individuality - Answer: Each resident's unique needs, capabilities, personalities, backgrounds
and preferences.
MAR (Medication Administration Record) - Answer: 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.
30-hour - Answer: 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.
Nursing Home-Level Care - Answer: 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.
Pain Management - Answer: 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.
Privacy - Answer: 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.
Shared Responsibility - Answer: 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.
