NJ CALA CERTIFIED ASSISTED LIVING
ADMINISTRATOR COMPREHENSIVE TEST
PAPER 2026 COMPLETE ANSWERS
ACCURATE
⫸ 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
ADMINISTRATOR COMPREHENSIVE TEST
PAPER 2026 COMPLETE ANSWERS
ACCURATE
⫸ 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
