I recently moved to a small town in rural Southeast US and the patient census is nearly non-existant. I get, on average, five patients a day. Occasionally I have a full eight-hour shift with zero patients. I work for an FQHC, so I don't have any control over who I see - instead, I am just expected to remain available for any potential walk-ins or rescheduled patients. Compared to my last job, I'm bored to tears and feel that my skills are being wasted. I have to stay at this FQHC in order to get my loans forgiven, and yeah, it's weird complaining about having free time, but I can't help but feel that I'm advertising myself as expendable. Has anyone else here been in a similar situation, and if so, how did you best make use of your free time?
Thank you
Thank you