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

Objective: The objective of this study was to develop and validate an educational video on nasopharyngeal and oropharyngeal suctioning.

Background: The use of videos in nursing education can improve students' skills in performing procedures.

Design: This was a methodological study.

Methods: 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 <0.05 were considered significant.

Results: After four rounds of evaluation by the specialists, the script was considered validated. The video was considered validated after two rounds of evaluation by specialists and students (p < 0.001). The video addressed the following topics: concept, indications, contraindications, required materials, appropriate technique, nursing notes and complications.

Conclusions: The video script was created by using the Storyboard technique and validated by specialist nurses using the Delphi technique. Nursing students watched, analyzed and understood the video which may support them to improve their technical skills of this procedure.