icuzay

Hi everyone, I want to be a CRNA but before I go I want to save up a lot of money and also pay off loans if possible. I know travel nursing would be my best bet. However, I'm worried that my small ICU experience wouldn't be good enough to travel to higher acuity hospitals. But I love my unit and my boss and I really would prefer to stay. I work in a 16 bed MICU and we get all types of patients: cardiac arrest, DKA, MI, the occasional surgical pt, a lot of RF & ARDS, PEs, ETOH withdrawal. We manage devices such as CRRT, artic sun, art lines, CVPs, vents, and occasionally we get PA caths. We work with plenty of pressors and sedatives as well. The problem is we have low acuity. There have been month long stretches where we just have majority nursing home patients that are solely there because they are on the vent. Or we have pts that should be on a step-down but aren't because our hospital doesn't have a step down. Also we send out certain pts like balloon pumps and others depending on what they need. I currently have a year on this unit and I'm thinking to stay another year and then travel or possibly travel in another 6 months. Then apply to school later. Would it be possible to get contracts at big hospitals with this experience maybe if I asked for harder pts. Any advice anyone could give would be greatly appreciated. Thanks!