Soap Note

What happens when your data replaces the sample

What Soap Note does when the data is longer, shorter or emptier than the sample:

Fixed page furniture Never grows, never moves

the head rule under the masthead and the foot rule carrying the practice and the folio (fixed height — nothing in either may grow)

Repeats per record One block per row of your data

the four note sections down the measure, each with its letter hung in the margin; the observation rows; the plan rows

Grows with your data Absorbs long values without breaking

every section's prose; the plan; the coded problem list

Pinned to every page Holds position across page breaks

the head and foot rules sit at the page top and bottom on every page; the margin holds its width

Order on the page What sits after what

subjective, objective, assessment, plan, then the signature

Page breaks What may split, what must not

the sections may split across pages; the signature block must not

Last page How the document ends

the plan and the signature may occupy the final page alone; the margin and foot rule carry it

Palette and type