NJ CALA Exam Question & Answers
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Aging in Place - CORRECT ANSWERS ✔✔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.
ADLs (Activity of Daily Living) - CORRECT ANSWERS ✔✔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 - CORRECT ANSWERS ✔✔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 - CORRECT ANSWERS ✔✔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) - CORRECT ANSWERS
✔✔A facility which is licensed by the Department of Health and
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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) - CORRECT ANSWERS
✔✔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 - CORRECT ANSWERS
✔✔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 - CORRECT ANSWERS ✔✔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 - CORRECT ANSWERS ✔✔Any service provided
to a resident of an assisted living or comprehensive personal care home
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that is ordered by a physician and required to be provided or delegated
by a licensed, registered or certified health care professional.
Hospice - CORRECT ANSWERS ✔✔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 - CORRECT ANSWERS ✔✔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 - CORRECT ANSWERS ✔✔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 - CORRECT ANSWERS ✔✔A procedure in
which a prescribed medication or biological is given to a resident by an
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authorized individual in accordance with all laws and regulations
governing such procedures.
Process of Medication Administration - CORRECT ANSWERS ✔✔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 - CORRECT ANSWERS ✔✔The self-worth of a resident.
Independence - CORRECT ANSWERS ✔✔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 - CORRECT ANSWERS ✔✔Each resident's unique needs,
capabilities, personalities, backgrounds and preferences.
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Aging in Place - CORRECT ANSWERS ✔✔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.
ADLs (Activity of Daily Living) - CORRECT ANSWERS ✔✔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 - CORRECT ANSWERS ✔✔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 - CORRECT ANSWERS ✔✔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) - CORRECT ANSWERS
✔✔A facility which is licensed by the Department of Health and
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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) - CORRECT ANSWERS
✔✔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 - CORRECT ANSWERS
✔✔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 - CORRECT ANSWERS ✔✔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 - CORRECT ANSWERS ✔✔Any service provided
to a resident of an assisted living or comprehensive personal care home
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that is ordered by a physician and required to be provided or delegated
by a licensed, registered or certified health care professional.
Hospice - CORRECT ANSWERS ✔✔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 - CORRECT ANSWERS ✔✔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 - CORRECT ANSWERS ✔✔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 - CORRECT ANSWERS ✔✔A procedure in
which a prescribed medication or biological is given to a resident by an
, NJ CALA Exam Question & Answers
(Latest 2025 )
authorized individual in accordance with all laws and regulations
governing such procedures.
Process of Medication Administration - CORRECT ANSWERS ✔✔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 - CORRECT ANSWERS ✔✔The self-worth of a resident.
Independence - CORRECT ANSWERS ✔✔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 - CORRECT ANSWERS ✔✔Each resident's unique needs,
capabilities, personalities, backgrounds and preferences.
