Patients may spend a night in the PACU at hospitals that provide operations to patients who do not have a room reservation before surgery. Additionally, patients who were previously scheduled to be discharged home from the hospital may be kept longer or may remain in the PACU if surgeons require that specific patients can only be admitted to specific floors. Overnight patients are becoming increasingly more commonplace in many PACUs and hospitals across the country. To meet the inadequate bed situation, some hospitals require floor nurses or ICU nurses to “float” to the PACU to provide care to an overnight patient who has recovered (and has met PACU discharge criteria), but who is awaiting a bed. This practice still provides the procedure-specific care that the patient would have received on their indicated floor if the bed would have been available and does not require the PACU to meet the staffing needs of these recovered patients. Whenever this happens, it is important to ensure that the standards of care for the specific patient destination are provided for in the PACU setting. Additionally, special attention should be paid to patient and family satisfaction as a prolonged stay in the PACU may not afford the same overnight comfort as a patient room or an ICU.