High Risk L&D question

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I have been an L&D nurse for 7 years. I've been at the same hospital that whole time. In that time I've taken care of women with gestational diabetes, IDDM, PIH, preeclampsia. Twins, PPROM, premature labor, abruptions, etc. We ship anyone who is less than 34 weeks if we can, but of course sometimes we are stabilizing and shipping a very early baby because they deliver with us.

The hospital I practice in has a level 2 special care nursery and our level of maternal care is also level 2. A while back we split campus and everyone but us and the SCN moved 5 miles away essentially making us a freestanding birth center. We still have the same patient population though.

So now I want to start travelling. My recruiter keeps asking me how much high risk experience I have and puts me in for jobs at Level 3 and 4 hospitals which I would love to work at and gain more experience, but I do not want to represent myself as knowing more than I do. My experience with women who are really, really sick is to stabilize and ship them, especially since our split. Before they would have gone upstairs to ICU.

So with all of that said, as my recruiter asked me yesterday, on a scale of 1-10, how much high risk experience do I actually have?

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