Medical-surgical assignments include oncology and neutropenic patients, postoperative and psychiatric patients, general medical-surgical patients with COPD, CHF, sepsis, DVT, AKI, dialysis, or COVID, as well as total-joint, post-surgical, general medical overflow, and palliative-care patients with pneumonia, PE, or occasional surgical cases. PCU assignments require cardiac rhythm interpretation, chest tube and lumbar drain management, tracheostomy care, and IV medication titration, including amiodarone, Cardizem, nitro, dopamine, dobutamine, non-DKA insulin, heparin, and sometimes Cardene.