Located on Blake 7, this 18-bed adult critical care unit provides highly specialized care for patients with complex respiratory and medical conditions, including sepsis, gastrointestinal and genitourinary disorders, hematology-oncology diagnoses, cardiac and neurological illnesses, and emerging infectious diseases. Accountable for interpreting the plan of medical care, assessment of patients' clinical decision-making regarding nursing care, assuring nursing care is provided in a safe and competent manner, providing individualized nursing care, and evaluating nursing care for groups of patients.