Case Scenario 1- Complete the chart and answer the case scenario pain that is
Kelly is a 19-year-old female who comes to your clinic complaining of severe menstrualusually worse just prior to and during the first two days of her menses. The pain is sometimes so
severe that she has fainted. She states that defecation can cause severe pain and she therefore
frequently becomes constipated. She often must miss work when experiencing the severe pain. Her
periods are heavy and last seven days with a tapering of the bleeding from days 3 to 7. Her BMI is
23.9 and her VS are all WNL. She is G0 P0.
Write a brief SOAP note regarding this patient. Make sure to include your answers to these
questions in your SOAP note.
1. Subjective:
a. What other relevant questions should you ask regarding the HPI?
b. What other medical history questions should you ask?
Diagnosis Definition Presentation/
Sign and
Symptom
Management
Bartholin Cyst
Squamous
Carcinoma of the
Vagina
Adenocarcinoma
of the Vagina
Lichen Sclerosus
Lichen Planus
Lichen Simplex
Chronicus
Vulvodynia
c. What other social history questions should you ask?
d. What other family history questions should you ask?
2. Objective:
a. Write a detailed focused physical assessment on this patient.
b. Explain what test(s) you will order and perform, and discuss your rationale for
ordering and performing each test.
3. Assessment/ Diagnosis:
a. What is your presumptive diagnosis? Why?
b. Any other diagnosis or differential diagnosis you would like to add?
4. Plan:
a. How will you manage this patient? What treatment or medication would you prescribe
and why?
b. Explain treatment guidelines and side effects including any possible side effects of
the medication and treatment(s),
c. What patient education is important to include for this patient? (Consider including
pharmacological, supplements, and non pharmacological recommendations and
education)
d. What is the follow-up plan of care?
e. Explain complications that can occur if patient does not comply with treatment
regimen.
Please refer to evidence-based guidelines to support your decision-making.
SOAP NOTE FORMAT
Subjective
CC:
HPI:
Medications:
Allergies:
LMP:
Gyn/OB history:
PMH:
Chronic Illness/ Major trauma:
Family Hx:
Social Hx:
ROS
– List the body systems and provide answers
– (Don’t forget to include Gyn ROS)
– You can include questions here that you’d like to ask the patient
Objective Data
General- provide findings
VS
List body systems- provide findings
– (Don’t forget Gyn System)
– (You can include answers here to questions posed in the prompt)
Include POCT (Point of Care testing) not labs that you will send to the laboratoryAssessment/
DiagnosisInclude the ICD10 code
DDX
Plan
Diagnostic tests
Lab Tests
Treatment
Medication
Referrals
Education
Health Maintenance
Follow up
Prompt Questions
(You can include answers here that is asked in the prompt)
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