NJ CALA Certification Exam (Latest 2026
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• 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. ✓✓Aging in
Place
• 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.
✓✓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. ✓✓Assisted Living
• 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. ✓✓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. ✓✓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.
✓✓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. ✓✓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. ✓✓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. ✓✓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. ✓✓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. ✓✓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. ✓✓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. ✓✓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. ✓✓Process of Medication
Administration
• The self-worth of a resident. ✓✓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. ✓✓Independence
• Each resident's unique needs, capabilities, personalities, backgrounds
and preferences. ✓✓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. ✓✓MAR (Medication Administration
Record)
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• 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. ✓✓Aging in
Place
• 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.
✓✓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. ✓✓Assisted Living
• 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. ✓✓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. ✓✓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.
✓✓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. ✓✓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. ✓✓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. ✓✓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. ✓✓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. ✓✓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. ✓✓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. ✓✓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. ✓✓Process of Medication
Administration
• The self-worth of a resident. ✓✓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. ✓✓Independence
• Each resident's unique needs, capabilities, personalities, backgrounds
and preferences. ✓✓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. ✓✓MAR (Medication Administration
Record)
