PCC Field Medical Training Battalion – West (FMTB-W) Block 4 Practice Test

The main idea is that good nursing care targets complications that arise from immobility, wounds, and invasive procedures, and can actively prevent them. Proper infection control—hand hygiene, aseptic technique, and sterile care—greatly reduces infection risk. Regular turning, skin inspections, moisture management, and nutrition support help prevent pressure ulcers. Encouraging early mobilization, leg exercises, adequate hydration, and use of compression devices or prophylactic measures reduce the chance of deep vein thrombosis.

Arteriosclerosis is a chronic, long-term vascular process driven by factors like lipid levels, blood pressure, smoking, diabetes, and age. While nurses can educate patients, support treatment, and help patients modify risk factors over time, this disease’s progression isn’t something that routine nursing interventions in the care setting can rapidly or drastically prevent. Therefore, arteriosclerosis is the exception to the rest, which nursing care can substantially reduce.