About the Authors

Olive M. Fast

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

ofast@spectrust.org

Affiliation Sterile Processing Education Charitable Trust (SPECT), Calgary, Canada

Hareya Gebremedhin Teka

Contributed equally to this work with: Hareya Gebremedhin Teka, Mussie Alemayehu/Gebreselassie

Roles Resources, Software, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation College of Health Science, Mekelle University, Mekelle, Ethiopia

Mussie Alemayehu/Gebreselassie

Contributed equally to this work with: Hareya Gebremedhin Teka, Mussie Alemayehu/Gebreselassie

Roles Resources, Software, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation College of Health Science, Mekelle University, Mekelle, Ethiopia

Christina Marie Danielle Fast

Roles Investigation, Validation, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

‡ These authors also contributed equally to this work.

Affiliation Sterile Processing Education Charitable Trust (SPECT), Calgary, Canada

Dan Fast

Roles Investigation, Validation, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

‡ These authors also contributed equally to this work.

Affiliation Sterile Processing Education Charitable Trust (SPECT), Calgary, Canada

Faith-Michael E. Uzoka

Roles Formal analysis, Methodology

Affiliation Department and Mathematics and Computing, Mount Royal University, Calgary, Canada

Competing Interests

I have read the journal's policy and the authors of this manuscript have the following competing interests: Olive Fast is chair of Sterile Processing Education Charitable Trust (SPECT); Dan Fast is program coordinator for SPECT; Christina Fast is Founder and Consultant for SPECT. This does not alter our adherence to PLOS ONE policies on sharing data and materials.