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NJ CALA TEST EXAM COMPLETELY UPDATED
2025–2026 EDITION | VERIFIED QUESTIONS &
100% ACCURATE ANSWERS | GUARANTEED A+
PERFORMANCE
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
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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
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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
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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. - 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
NJ CALA TEST EXAM COMPLETELY UPDATED
2025–2026 EDITION | VERIFIED QUESTIONS &
100% ACCURATE ANSWERS | GUARANTEED A+
PERFORMANCE
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
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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
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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
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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. - 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
