| Throughout my fourteen year pharmaceutical career, | | | | bonuses could amount to six figures for high |
| I've met quite a few nurses who wanted to leave | | | | achievers and there is the use of a company car. |
| nursing for other careers. They were tired of the | | | | Corporate expense accounts are also available for |
| long shift hours and having to work overnight shifts | | | | business entertaining. There are also the travel |
| as well. Some were also tired of having to physically | | | | opportunities that are paid for by the company as |
| move patients around. One even injured her back | | | | many sales meetings as well as medical conventions |
| doing just that and had to take a medical leave for | | | | are often located at nice places. |
| rehabilitation. There are also the politics involved in | | | | Being a pharmaceutical sales representative also |
| the hospitals that many nurses have grown tired of. | | | | means that there is a lot of freedom and |
| Some of these nurses asked me about the possibility | | | | independence with the job as fixed working shifts |
| of becoming drug reps in pharmaceutical sales after | | | | are no longer the way for a drug rep. Even better is |
| being exposed to the industry while at the hospitals. | | | | that for 95% of the time, there is no boss to look |
| Well it turns out that a career move from nursing to | | | | over your shoulder while on the job. |
| a medical sales job is quite a natural one. I've known | | | | Although nursing does have its rewards since the job |
| many drug reps, some even under my own direct | | | | involves helping patients, being a drug rep can also |
| management, who were in fact, former nurses. | | | | have similar satisfaction. The field involves working |
| Nurses who want to become pharmaceutical sales | | | | with medical professionals to bring them useful |
| representatives have quite a lot of advantages | | | | products that will greatly benefit their patients. So |
| compared to candidates who have never worked in | | | | even though there's a career change, nurses who |
| the health care fields before. Nurses are already | | | | end up being drug reps with pharmaceutical sales |
| knowledgeable in physiology, anatomy and how | | | | forces can still be considered as part of the overall |
| typical medical environments such as hospitals work. | | | | health care team since they are playing an important |
| There are many perks and benefits when working as | | | | role in helping patients. |
| a drug rep in the pharmaceutical industry. Salaries and | | | | |