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Background: Venipuncture (VEN-uh-punk-shur) is the process of putting a needle in a vein. This is done to take a blood sample or put in an intravenous cannula to give medicine, fluids, or blood products. Venipuncture is usually done by a nurse, but a physician assistant, diagnostic imaging technologist, or doctor can also do it. During the routine care of children, painful invasive procedures such as venipuncture for the withdrawal of blood for hematological testing or securing intravenous cannula for administration of medicine usually are inevitable in healthy and sick subjects. The importance of pain assessment and pain management is widely acknowledged and alleviation of pain caused by minor invasive procedures in children is an important issue for humane reasons and in terms of their reactions to future painful events and acceptance of subsequent health care interventions. Aim and objective: A study was planned to assess the effectiveness of buzzy device on the level of pain during venipuncture in children admitted at paediatric unit and to find out the satisfaction of the caregivers in relation to the use of Buzzy device for pain management during Venipuncture. Material and method: A experimental approach is used for the study. The study was conducted on the 136 childrens between age group of 6 to 12 years of age undergoing venipuncture procedure from paediatric unit. The samples were divided in experimental and control group using computer generated randomization list. Results: The analysis and interpretation revealed that it was observed that buzzy device is effective in terms to reduce venipuncture associated pain children undergoing venipuncture procedure. Conclusion: The finding of the study shows that, it can be applied in various setting commencing first of all with small preventive procedures like Venipuncture, vaccinations, collecting blood samples, child with juvenile diabetes mellitus who is on insulin etc. to reduce needle associated pain in children.