SOAP note template
The four-part note for most visits, with acute, musculoskeletal, and telehealth examples.
Free clinical templates
Templates for the notes, handoffs, and letters you write every day. Each comes with filled examples and what goes in every part. Copy it, download it, or let Vero fill it in from your visit.
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SBAR template
Situation, Background, Assessment, Recommendation: for calls, handoffs, and transfers.
Referral letter template
To a specialist or service, with a clear question, the urgency, and the history.
Templates by specialty.
The fields, measures, and examples each specialty documents.
Nurse practitioners
Vero for nurse practitionersPediatrics
Vero for pediatricsPediatric SOAP note
The sick-visit SOAP note for children, with caregiver history, hydration, and weight-based doses.Well-child visit
Growth, development, screening, vaccines, and safety guidance, with 12-month and 5-year examples.Newborn exam
Birth history, feeding and weight change, the full newborn exam, jaundice, and newborn screens.Pediatric H&P
The full pediatric history and exam for an admission or a new patient, from birth history to plan.HEEADSSS assessment
The adolescent psychosocial interview, from confidentiality and home life to safety online.Hospital medicine
Vero for hospital medicineHospitalist progress note
The daily inpatient note: overnight events, trends, a plan by problem, and the daily checklist.Admission H&P
The full adult admission workup, with medication reconciliation, goals of care, and level of care.Inpatient consult note
Answer another team’s question: a focused history, a direct answer, and numbered recommendations.Therapy and counseling
Vero for therapy and counselingTherapy progress note
One psychotherapy session: focus, interventions, client response, risk, and progress toward goals.Counseling SOAP note
SOAP for therapy sessions, with mental status observations and PHQ-9 and GAD-7 scores.Therapy intake assessment
The first session: consent, history, risk, mental status, screening scores, and recommendations.Biopsychosocial assessment
Biological, psychological, social, and cultural factors, brought together in one formulation.Mental health treatment plan
Problems, goals, measurable objectives, interventions, and review dates, agreed with the client.Group therapy note
One note per member: the group’s topic and interventions, then that member’s participation and plan.Case conceptualization
The 4 Ps, a cognitive-behavioral formulation, and what they mean for treatment.Psychiatry
Vero for psychiatryPhysical therapy
Vero for physical therapyPhysical therapy SOAP note
Follow-up visit note with pain, ROM, MMT, special tests, timed interventions, and the home program.Physical therapy evaluation
Initial evaluation with history, systems review, tests and measures, prognosis, goals, and plan of care.Physical therapy daily note
Per-visit treatment log: each intervention with parameters and minutes, the response, and next steps.Physical therapy progress report
Re-assessment with measures beside baseline, goal status, updated goals, and the case to continue.Physical therapy discharge summary
End-of-care summary with initial and final measures, goals met, the home program, and follow-up.Occupational therapy
Vero for occupational therapyOccupational therapy SOAP note
Function-focused session note with ADLs, IADLs, assist levels, cues, fine motor, and safety.Occupational therapy evaluation
Occupational profile, environment, ADL and IADL performance, named assessments, goals, and plan.Occupational therapy progress note
Periodic review with assist levels then and now, goal status with evidence, and the updated plan.Speech-language pathology
Vero for speech-language pathologyChiropractic
Vero for chiropracticChiropractic SOAP note
Visit note with segmental findings, adjustments by region and technique, and response to care.Chiropractic initial exam
New-patient exam with red flag screen, orthopedic and neuro tests, consent, and a plan with goals.Chiropractic re-exam note
Formal reassessment against the initial exam, with outcome scores and a continue, taper, or refer decision.Nursing
Vero for nursingNutrition and dietetics
Vero for nutrition and dieteticsDentistry
Vero for dentistryMore templates across Vero.
These live on our guides and product pages for now, each with a template to copy.
Review of systems (ROS)A blank template with each body system, and two examples.Discharge summaryA template to start your next summary from.After-visit summaryA template for plain-language patient instructions.Progress noteA concise template, with four worked examples.Nursing noteA copyable template, with examples and a checklist.Therapy notes: SOAP, DAP, and BIRPTherapy session examples in three formats.Procedure noteA free template, with examples.Patient intakeBuild an intake template for your clinic.Veterinary SOAPA SOAP template for veterinary visits.
Use any template in Vero.
Start from Vero’s templates or the community library, or paste in your own. Vero fills them in from the visit or your dictation, and learns how you like your notes.
Frequently asked questions.
Are these templates free?
Yes. Copy any template, or download it as a Word or text file. No account needed.
Can I use these templates in my EMR or EHR?
Yes. Paste the text into your note editor or template builder, or open the Word file. Rename the headings and fields to match your organization’s requirements.
Can Vero fill in these templates for me?
Yes. Vero Scribe writes notes in your templates from the visit conversation, with the patient’s consent, or from your dictation. Paste any template here into Vero as your own: the [square brackets] become the fields Vero fills in.
Can I change these templates?
Yes. Rename the headings, remove the fields you don’t use, and add the ones your specialty or organization requires. Paste your version into Vero to use it as your own template.
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Social work
Vero for social workSocial work case note
One contact with a client: interventions, collateral contacts, safety, and tasks with owners.Social work SOAP note
SOAP for psychosocial work: client report, observations and collateral, needs, and referrals.