# Visits and Medical Records

The visit guides for Veterian — checking a patient in, SOAP notes, treatments, vaccinations and prescriptions, plus the Flowboard and in-patient stays.

The visit is the medical record. Everything the clinic did for a patient on one day is recorded on it: examination notes, treatments, prescriptions and follow-ups. The invoice for that work is produced from the visit at checkout.

A visit does not start from an empty form — you check the patient in first, and Veterian creates the visit from that.

## Start Here

[Record a visit](/visits/record-a-visit) is the spine of this section. It covers check-in, what a visit holds, the four statuses and checkout. The other guides go deeper into one part of it.

## Guides in This Section

| Guide | What it answers |
|---|---|
| [Record a visit](/visits/record-a-visit) | Checking the patient in, SOAP notes, follow-ups, the four statuses and checkout |
| [Record a treatment](/visits/record-a-treatment) | The treatment table, administration routes, and why a treatment is harder to undo than a note |
| [Record a vaccination](/visits/record-a-vaccination) | Scheduling and administering doses, the interval that drives the next one, and the Vaccine Calendar |
| [Write a prescription](/visits/write-a-prescription) | Adding medications, and what issuing the prescription locks |
| [The Flowboard](/visits/flowboard) | Running the clinic day as a board, with a column per stage |
| [Hospitalization](/visits/hospitalization) | Boxes, admitting a patient, and discharge |

## Worth Knowing First

- **A patient can only have one visit open at a time.** If check-in is refused, an earlier visit is still open.
- **Treatments are not only a medical note.** The same line is the stock movement and the invoice line, which is why deleting one affects more than the record.
- **The Flowboard is not a separate tracker.** Its columns are the visit's own statuses, so moving a card there changes the record.

## Related

- [Appointment statuses](/appointments/appointment-statuses) — how check-in changes the appointment
- [Create an invoice](/billing/create-an-invoice) — the invoice produced at checkout
- [Diagnoses](/settings/diagnoses) — the list SOAP assessment picks from