I’m a senior nurse in career planning and education.
It’s a good sector for nurses.
If you have an eye on a particular condition area then, as the PP said, try and become the ICU link for that area such as wound care, resp conditions, haem conditions etc.
Communication and presentation skills are key for role so take any opportunity you can to hone those by doing teaching sessions in your unit for students etc. I’ve seen lots of confident nurses fail in the med sales sector because they couldn’t make the jump in this. Being good at communicating with patients and relatives doesn’t translate to doing it at scale with senior professionals charged with buying your product line.
Also start honing your commercial knowledge. Learn about the hospital procurement process and gain a basic understanding of commercial sales and marketing. Again, I’ve met really knowledgeable nurses who struggled to get their head around the commercial aspect of medical sales coming from the public sector.
If any medical reps come to your unit, use it as an opportunity to ask questions and you can even ask them if you can shadow them one day…in your own time of course!
Dont be shy to make your own opportunities and it’s great that you are already thinking of your next step.
Best of luck