Is this type of schedule common?

The type of schedule I'm referring to is where one would work 2 weeks on and then be off for 2 weeks and then the cycle starts again; or work 3, 4, 5, 6 weeks etc. and be off that same amount of weeks that was worked? Catch my drift? Is there variations to this type of scheduling? Any nurses with this type of scheduling? Thank You!
Not that I'm aware of in nursing but I know someone who works as a miner who has that exact schedule- 14 days on, 14 days off.

If you mean work two weeks without a day off- I doubt you'll find any hourly nurses doing this, as it would generate a LOT of OT. However, salaried people (our hospital's pharmacists and hospitalists, for example) work one week (12 hours shifts) on and one week off.

I have never seen that and you wouldn't find it in a unionized work place.Working 2 weeks straight would be too much.

Never heard of a schedule like this. It sounds like it would really suck.

Maybe on a cruise ship, otherwise the closest thing I have heard of is seven 12s in a row followed by 7 days off. I'm not sure that is even legal in my State now. I'm not going to check right now (cause I just finished my degree and I'm sick of looking things up tonight!), but I believe there is evidence showing nurses to be unsafe with that many hours in a week (84 in a week).

The only thing close to that schedule that I have heard of is a buddy of mine that is a fireman. But not even close to 14 days on though...

Quote from TiffyRNMaybe on a cruise ship, otherwise the closest thing I have heard of is seven 12s in a row followed by 7 days off. I'm not sure that is even legal in my State now. I'm not going to check right now (cause I just finished my degree and I'm sick of looking things up tonight!), but I believe there is evidence showing nurses to be unsafe with that many hours in a week (84 in a week).

I sometimes do 7 on 7 off, 12 hour shifts. I cannot imagine 2 weeks on/off unless it's at some remote outpost with a lot of downtime.

My area has a hospital that does 7/70, seven 10 hour shifts in a row and then 7 days off. You either love it or hate it.

I do three in a row and I am whipped, I don't even consider 4 days consecutive, ever. Not worth it to me.Sent from my iPad using allnurses.com

Two weeks straight would run into overtime as well.

I'm sitting here trying to think how they get around the 40 hour work week OT as per fair wage and labor....you are either 8/80/2wk or 40/hr/wk. Even if they are 8 hour shifts...that's 112 hours. Unless they pay OT.