CALA PRACTICE EXAM 2026 QUESTIONS
AND ANSWERS CERTIFICATION
EVALUATION SET
●● 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.
AND ANSWERS CERTIFICATION
EVALUATION SET
●● 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.
