NJ CALA Exam Questions and Answers (Latest Update 2023) 355 Questions
Aging in Place - Correct Answer ✅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 Answer ✅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 Answer ✅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 Answer ✅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. NJ CALA Exam Questions and Answers (Latest Update 2023) 355 Questions
CPCH (Comprehensive Personal Care Home) - Correct Answer ✅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) - Correct Answer ✅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 Answer ✅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 Answer ✅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 NJ CALA Exam Questions and Answers (Latest Update 2023) 355 Questions
a person affiliated with the facility, its operations or personnel, unless so ordered by the court.
Health Care Service - Correct Answer ✅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 - Correct Answer ✅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 Answer ✅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. NJ CALA Exam Questions and Answers (Latest Update 2023) 355 Questions
Manage Risk Agreement - Correct Answer ✅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 Answer ✅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 - Correct Answer ✅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.
Aging in Place - Correct Answer ✅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 Answer ✅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 Answer ✅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 Answer ✅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. NJ CALA Exam Questions and Answers (Latest Update 2023) 355 Questions
CPCH (Comprehensive Personal Care Home) - Correct Answer ✅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) - Correct Answer ✅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 Answer ✅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 Answer ✅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 NJ CALA Exam Questions and Answers (Latest Update 2023) 355 Questions
a person affiliated with the facility, its operations or personnel, unless so ordered by the court.
Health Care Service - Correct Answer ✅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 - Correct Answer ✅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 Answer ✅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. NJ CALA Exam Questions and Answers (Latest Update 2023) 355 Questions
Manage Risk Agreement - Correct Answer ✅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 Answer ✅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 - Correct Answer ✅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.
