This increase in payment actually resulted in a full time nocturnist in the group. One article published by The Hospitalist eWire on May 22nd, 2013 does help shed some light on the night shift differential benchmarks.
1 MRSA can live for up to 8 weeks on a mop head. 2  MRSA can live for up to 9 weeks on a cotton towel. 3  MRSA can live for up to 203 days (over 6 moths) on a blanket. 4  MRSA can live on the skin of otherwise healthy individuals, with no symptoms indefinitely. If you have an active MRSA infection on your skin, it is contagious. 2  If someone touches your infections, or touches something that came in contact with your infections (like a towel), that person could get MRSA. 3  If you are a MRSA carrier, you still have the bacteria on your skin and in your nose.
(MRSA Prevention, 2011) MRSA Infections can affect the body in the following ways: Lungs (pneumonia) MRSA enters the bloodstream and implants itself in the soft tissues of the lungs. The MRSA then breeds and thus causing infection and pus build up along with inflammation and swelling. This results in pneumonia. In the case where antibiotics cannot target MRSA there is a chance of lung failure. Bone (osteomyelitis)