Med-Surg assignments include oncology patients (including neutropenic and postoperative patients), psychiatric patients, general medical-surgical patients (postoperative, COPD, CHF, sepsis, DVT, AKI, dialysis, and COVID), orthopedic patients (total joints, postoperative patients, and general medical overflow), and palliative patients (pneumonia, sepsis, CHF, COPD, AKI, DVT, PE, occasional surgical cases, and COVID). Required PCU skills include cardiac rhythm interpretation, chest tubes, lumbar drains, tracheostomies, and IV medication titration for amiodarone, Cardizem, nitro, dopamine, dobutamine, non-DKA insulin, and heparin; Cardene is sometimes used.