NJ CALA TEST 2025 | NEW JERSEY CERTIFIED ASSISTED LIVING ADMINISTRATOR
EXAM | QUESTIONS AND CORRECT ANSWERS | VERIFIED 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. -
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. -
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. -
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. -
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. -
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. -
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. -
,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. -
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. -
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. -
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. -
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. -
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. -
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. -
6.) Answer-Process of Medication Administration
The self-worth of a resident. -
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. -
Answer-Independence
Each resident's unique needs, capabilities, personalities, backgrounds and preferences. -
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. -
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. -
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,
EXAM | QUESTIONS AND CORRECT ANSWERS | VERIFIED 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. -
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. -
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. -
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. -
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. -
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. -
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. -
,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. -
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. -
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. -
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. -
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. -
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. -
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. -
6.) Answer-Process of Medication Administration
The self-worth of a resident. -
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. -
Answer-Independence
Each resident's unique needs, capabilities, personalities, backgrounds and preferences. -
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. -
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. -
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,
