NJ CALA ACTUAL EXAM PRACTICE
QUESTIONS WITH 100% CORRECT
ANSWERS | BRAND NEW VERSION
1. 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.
2. 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.
3. 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.
4. 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.
5. Dignity - ANSWER The self-worth of a resident.
6. 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.
7. Individuality - ANSWER Each resident's unique needs, capabilities,
personalities, backgrounds and preferences.
8. 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.
9. 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.
10.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.
11.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.
12.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.
13.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.
14.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.
, 15.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.
16.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.
17.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.
18.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.
19.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.
20.Manage Risk Agreement - ANSWER The written formal plan developed in
consideration of shared responsibility, bounded choice and assisted living
QUESTIONS WITH 100% CORRECT
ANSWERS | BRAND NEW VERSION
1. 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.
2. 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.
3. 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.
4. 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.
5. Dignity - ANSWER The self-worth of a resident.
6. 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.
7. Individuality - ANSWER Each resident's unique needs, capabilities,
personalities, backgrounds and preferences.
8. 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.
9. 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.
10.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.
11.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.
12.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.
13.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.
14.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.
, 15.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.
16.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.
17.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.
18.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.
19.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.
20.Manage Risk Agreement - ANSWER The written formal plan developed in
consideration of shared responsibility, bounded choice and assisted living
