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SOAP Exercise

Diabetic confusion

How this exercise works

Read each report sentence, then drag it into Subjective (what the patient says), Objective (what you measure or observe), Assessment (your clinical impression), or Plan (treatments and transport). Drop irrelevant noise into the trash. Submit when every sentence is placed.

Fundamental concept

How structured Subjective, Objective, Assessment, and Plan charting supports continuity of care and medicolegal accountability.

Read: SOAP Documentation for EMS Reports →

Scenario

72-year-old female found confused at home, family reports missed lunch and type 2 diabetes history.

Family states she takes metformin. Last known normal was before breakfast.

Report statements

Drag each sentence into the correct SOAP section, or into the trash if it does not belong in the chart.

Known diabetic, no insulin given today.
Living room television was tuned to a news channel.
Oral glucose, recheck, transport.
Glucose 48 mg/dL.
Hypoglycemia with altered mental status.
Neighbor waved from across the street.
Family reports increasing confusion over one hour.
Pale, diaphoretic, responds to verbal stimuli only.

Trash (not charted)

0

Drop useless or irrelevant statements here

S, Subjective

0

Drop statements here

O, Objective

0

Drop statements here

A, Assessment

0

Drop statements here

P, Plan

0

Drop statements here