How to make a good head to toe assessment?

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I have my first official clinical rotation in 2 weeks and I want to start thinking about how to make a good head to toe assessment. What sort of questions should I be asking myself? What should I be looking for? I am asking because it is hard to practice head to toe assessments on healthy 17-20 something year olds. We will be working with older adults and I am on a stroke floor if that helps with anything. I was also told finding pulses on older adults is a lot harder to do than on younger people who we spent the entire semester practicing on. I don't live with my grandmother anymore and my mom is still pretty young and has pretty strong pulses. Does anyone have any advice for how to take pulses or vitals in general for older adults?

Thank you so much for taking time to read and or answer :)

Hi I didn't know that we had a class for assessment until I started my semester. Basically the entire class is the parts of a head to toe assessment and we are tested on all of it at the end.

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