NJ CALA Certification Question and Answer
[2026/2027] | UPDATED ACTUAL Exam | A+
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• ADLs (Activity of Daily Living) -✓✓ 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 -✓✓ 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 -✓✓ 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) -✓✓ 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) -✓✓ 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 -✓✓ 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 -✓✓ 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 -✓✓ 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 -✓✓ 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 -✓✓ 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 -✓✓ 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 -✓✓ 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 -✓✓ 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 -✓✓ The self-worth of a resident.
• Independence -✓✓ 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 -✓✓ Each resident's unique needs, capabilities, personalities,
backgrounds and preferences.
• MAR (Medication Administration Record) -✓✓ 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 -✓✓ 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.
• Nursing Home-Level Care -✓✓ 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.
• Pain Management -✓✓ 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.
• Privacy -✓✓ A resident's degree of control over a specific physical area and/or
time; levels of intimacy with family and others; and communication and contact
with others outside the facility or program environment.
[2026/2027] | UPDATED ACTUAL Exam | A+
Verified
• ADLs (Activity of Daily Living) -✓✓ 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 -✓✓ 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 -✓✓ 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) -✓✓ 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) -✓✓ 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 -✓✓ 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 -✓✓ 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 -✓✓ 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 -✓✓ 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 -✓✓ 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 -✓✓ 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 -✓✓ 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 -✓✓ 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 -✓✓ The self-worth of a resident.
• Independence -✓✓ 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 -✓✓ Each resident's unique needs, capabilities, personalities,
backgrounds and preferences.
• MAR (Medication Administration Record) -✓✓ 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 -✓✓ 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.
• Nursing Home-Level Care -✓✓ 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.
• Pain Management -✓✓ 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.
• Privacy -✓✓ A resident's degree of control over a specific physical area and/or
time; levels of intimacy with family and others; and communication and contact
with others outside the facility or program environment.
