JPatchouli

That makes a lot of sense. I really appreciate your taking the time to reply, you've given me a lot to think about.

Thank you so much for your reply! Very helpful.

I have been a labor and delivery nurse for 7 years. I have been working in the same place that whole time. During that time I have done lots of "normal" and of course there is nothing better than a beautiful delivery! But I have also cared for plenty of women with GDM, IDDM, PIH, Preeclmapsia, morbidly obese, twin gestation, PPROM, PTL, pylo, PP hemorrhage, drug addicts with no prenatal care, etc. We do level 2 maternal care and have a level 2 nursery. Anyone under 34 weeks gets shipped if appropriate. Not to say we don't keep antepartums under 34 weeks, because we do that too. A while back our hospital built a brand new facility and split campuses leaving us and our nursery behind and taking EVERYTHING else 5 miles away. Essentially leaving us as a freestanding birth center, with the same pt population we have always had. I want to start traveling soon. My recruiter keeps asking e how much high risk experience I have and has put me in for a couple of positions that are at Level 3 & 4 facilities where I would love to work and gain more experience, but I sure don't want to misrepresent myself. He asked me yesterday, on a scale of 1-10, with 10 being the highest risk, how much high risk experience do you have? I honestly don't know how to answer that and am looking for any guidance. Thanks for reading this far, hope I'm making sense.

I have been a labor and delivery nurse for 7 years. I have been working in the same place that whole time. During that time I have done lots of "normal" and of course there is nothing better than a beautiful delivery! But I have also cared for plenty of women with GDM, IDDM, PIH, Preeclmapsia, morbidly obese, twin gestation, PPROM, PTL, pylo, PP hemorrhage, drug addicts with no prenatal care, etc. We do level 2 maternal care and have a level 2 nursery. Anyone under 34 weeks gets shipped if appropriate. Not to say we don't keep antepartums under 34 weeks, because we do that too. A while back our hospital built a brand new facility and split campuses leaving us and our nursery behind and taking EVERYTHING else 5 miles away. Essentially leaving us as a freestanding birth center, with the same pt population we have always had. I want to start traveling soon. My recruiter keeps asking e how much high risk experience I have and has put me in for a couple of positions that are at Level 3 & 4 facilities where I would love to work and gain more experience, but I sure don't want to misrepresent myself. He asked me yesterday, on a scale of 1-10, with 10 being the highest risk, how much high risk experience do you have? I honestly don't know how to answer that and am looking for any guidance. Thanks for reading this far, hope I'm making sense.

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?