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.
Flu viruses capable of being transferred to hands and causing an infection can survive on hard surfaces for 24 hours. Infectious flu viruses can survive on tissues for only 15 minutes. Like cold viruses, infectious flu viruses survive for much shorter periods on the hands.RSA. The staphylococcus aureus bacteria that cause MRSA infections can survive for days to weeks on surfaces. MRSA bacteria can live on surfaces for longer than some other bacteria and viruses because they survive better without moisture.