NJ CALA STUDY EXAMS GUIDE ALL QUESTIONS AND
ANSWERS SURE A+
✔✔assisted living values - ✔✔to promote and encourage resident's choice, dignity,
independence, individuality,and privacy
✔✔available - ✔✔ready for immediate use
✔✔bedridden - ✔✔physically unable to rise from bed, even with assistance with transfer
from the bed
✔✔bounded choice - ✔✔limits placed on a residents choice as a result of an
assessment
✔✔communicable disease - ✔✔an illness that occurs through transmission form a
reservoir to a susceptible host
✔✔comprehensive personal care home - ✔✔a facility licensed by the dept of health and
senior services to provide room and board and to assure that assisted living services
are available when needed
✔✔customized resident medication package - ✔✔a unit -of-use package prepared by a
pharmacist for a specific resident comprising a series of containers and containing 2 or
, more prescribed solid oral dosage forms, and labeled for day time, period and contents
w/in each container
✔✔dignity - ✔✔self-worth. enhanced when the facility and staff demonstrate courtesy,
respect to make decisons, and allow personal assistance and care in privacy
✔✔documented - ✔✔written, signed, and dated
✔✔drug regimen review - ✔✔resident review by the consultant or provider pharmacist
✔✔health care service - ✔✔any service provided to a resident that is ordered by a
physician and required to be provided by a licensed, registered or certified health care
professional
✔✔hospice - ✔✔program of palliative and supportive services provided to terminally ill
persons and their families in the form of physical, psychological, social, and spiritual
care
✔✔medication administration - ✔✔a procedure in which a prescribed medication is
given to a resident. the process includes:
removing an individual does from a previously dispensed, properly labeled container
verifying it with the prescribers orders
giving the dose to the resident
seeing that the resident takes it
recording method of admin, time given, initials of who administered it, and effect when
"prn" or as needed meds are administered.
✔✔privacy - ✔✔a residents degree of control over a specific physical area and/or time;
levels of intimacy with family and others, and communication and contact with other
outside the facility
✔✔self administration - ✔✔a procedure in which any medication is taken orally,
injected, inserted, or topically or otherwise administered by a resident to herself
✔✔shared responsibility - ✔✔the residents (and family) and providers of assisted living
services share responsibility for planning and decision making affecting the residents
✔✔signature - ✔✔at a minimum, the first initial and full surname and title, legibly written
with his or her own hand. an electronic signature is acceptable.
✔✔specialized long term care - ✔✔care of individuals who must use a respirator or
ventilator, and the care of individuals with severe behavior problems
✔✔total bed complement - ✔✔the resident census
ANSWERS SURE A+
✔✔assisted living values - ✔✔to promote and encourage resident's choice, dignity,
independence, individuality,and privacy
✔✔available - ✔✔ready for immediate use
✔✔bedridden - ✔✔physically unable to rise from bed, even with assistance with transfer
from the bed
✔✔bounded choice - ✔✔limits placed on a residents choice as a result of an
assessment
✔✔communicable disease - ✔✔an illness that occurs through transmission form a
reservoir to a susceptible host
✔✔comprehensive personal care home - ✔✔a facility licensed by the dept of health and
senior services to provide room and board and to assure that assisted living services
are available when needed
✔✔customized resident medication package - ✔✔a unit -of-use package prepared by a
pharmacist for a specific resident comprising a series of containers and containing 2 or
, more prescribed solid oral dosage forms, and labeled for day time, period and contents
w/in each container
✔✔dignity - ✔✔self-worth. enhanced when the facility and staff demonstrate courtesy,
respect to make decisons, and allow personal assistance and care in privacy
✔✔documented - ✔✔written, signed, and dated
✔✔drug regimen review - ✔✔resident review by the consultant or provider pharmacist
✔✔health care service - ✔✔any service provided to a resident that is ordered by a
physician and required to be provided by a licensed, registered or certified health care
professional
✔✔hospice - ✔✔program of palliative and supportive services provided to terminally ill
persons and their families in the form of physical, psychological, social, and spiritual
care
✔✔medication administration - ✔✔a procedure in which a prescribed medication is
given to a resident. the process includes:
removing an individual does from a previously dispensed, properly labeled container
verifying it with the prescribers orders
giving the dose to the resident
seeing that the resident takes it
recording method of admin, time given, initials of who administered it, and effect when
"prn" or as needed meds are administered.
✔✔privacy - ✔✔a residents degree of control over a specific physical area and/or time;
levels of intimacy with family and others, and communication and contact with other
outside the facility
✔✔self administration - ✔✔a procedure in which any medication is taken orally,
injected, inserted, or topically or otherwise administered by a resident to herself
✔✔shared responsibility - ✔✔the residents (and family) and providers of assisted living
services share responsibility for planning and decision making affecting the residents
✔✔signature - ✔✔at a minimum, the first initial and full surname and title, legibly written
with his or her own hand. an electronic signature is acceptable.
✔✔specialized long term care - ✔✔care of individuals who must use a respirator or
ventilator, and the care of individuals with severe behavior problems
✔✔total bed complement - ✔✔the resident census
