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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. - CORRECT ANSWER -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. - CORRECT ANSWER -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. - CORRECT ANSWER -
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. - CORRECT ANSWER -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. - CORRECT ANSWER -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. - CORRECT ANSWER -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. - CORRECT ANSWER -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. - CORRECT ANSWER -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. - CORRECT ANSWER -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. - CORRECT ANSWER -
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. - CORRECT ANSWER -
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. - CORRECT ANSWER -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. -
CORRECT ANSWER -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. - CORRECT
ANSWER -Process of Medication Administration
The self-worth of a resident. - CORRECT ANSWER -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. - CORRECT ANSWER -Independence
Each resident's unique needs, capabilities, personalities, backgrounds and preferences. -
CORRECT ANSWER -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. - CORRECT ANSWER -MAR (Medication
Administration Record)
, 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. - CORRECT ANSWER -30-hour
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. - CORRECT ANSWER -Nursing Home-Level
Care
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. - CORRECT ANSWER -Pain
Management
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. - CORRECT ANSWER -Privacy
Residents (and if the resident wishes the resident's family) and providers of assisted living
services share responsibility for planning and decision making affecting residents. To participate
fully in this, residents shaw be provided with clear and understandable information about the
possible consequences of their decision-making, in accordance with the provisions of N.J.A.C.
8:35-5.18(a)2. - CORRECT ANSWER -Shared Responsibility
Another term for resident census. - CORRECT ANSWER -Total Bed Complement
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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. - CORRECT ANSWER -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. - CORRECT ANSWER -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. - CORRECT ANSWER -
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. - CORRECT ANSWER -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. - CORRECT ANSWER -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. - CORRECT ANSWER -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. - CORRECT ANSWER -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. - CORRECT ANSWER -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. - CORRECT ANSWER -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. - CORRECT ANSWER -
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. - CORRECT ANSWER -
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. - CORRECT ANSWER -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. -
CORRECT ANSWER -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. - CORRECT
ANSWER -Process of Medication Administration
The self-worth of a resident. - CORRECT ANSWER -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. - CORRECT ANSWER -Independence
Each resident's unique needs, capabilities, personalities, backgrounds and preferences. -
CORRECT ANSWER -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. - CORRECT ANSWER -MAR (Medication
Administration Record)
, 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. - CORRECT ANSWER -30-hour
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. - CORRECT ANSWER -Nursing Home-Level
Care
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. - CORRECT ANSWER -Pain
Management
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. - CORRECT ANSWER -Privacy
Residents (and if the resident wishes the resident's family) and providers of assisted living
services share responsibility for planning and decision making affecting residents. To participate
fully in this, residents shaw be provided with clear and understandable information about the
possible consequences of their decision-making, in accordance with the provisions of N.J.A.C.
8:35-5.18(a)2. - CORRECT ANSWER -Shared Responsibility
Another term for resident census. - CORRECT ANSWER -Total Bed Complement
