Med-surg includes neutropenic and postoperative oncology patients, psychiatric patients, and general medical-surgical patients with postoperative care, COPD, CHF, sepsis, DVT, AKI, dialysis, and COVID; COVID is common on this floor. PCU assignments require cardiac rhythm interpretation, chest tube, lumbar drain, tracheostomy, and IV medication titration skills, including amiodarone, Cardizem, nitro, dopamine, dobutamine, non-DKA insulin, heparin, and sometimes Cardene.