Development and validation of an educational video on nasopharyngeal and oropharyngeal suctioning

The objective of this study was to develop and validate an educational video on nasopharyngeal and oropharyngeal suctioning. The use of videos in nursing education can improve students’ skills in performing procedures. This was a methodological study. This study was performed in five steps: (1) development of the script for an educational video on nasopharyngeal and oropharyngeal suctioning; (2) content validation of the script by 10 nurse specialists; (3) development of the video; (4) content validation of the video by six nurse specialists; (5) cognitive testing by 51 nursing students regarding the understanding of the items, until the following requirements were met: (1) mean and median scores ≥4, with significant inter-rater agreement, according to the Wilcoxon test; (2) 95% confidence intervals >80 for the proportion of maximum scores, according to the binomial distribution. p values