Manual lancet, needle tips and automatic lancets are used in the heel blood collection process. It has been reported that there may be complications arising from health professionals in the use of manual lancet or needle tip. In this study, an automatic lancet penetrating 2.4 mm-3 mm depth was used for safe puncture in term newborns.

No intervention, routine maintenance performed

An automatic lancet, which can reach a depth of 2.4 mm-3 mm, was used for safe piercing in babies.

The neo scale was developed (2014) to assess pain and stress in premature and mature neonates. The Neo is a five-item scale including facial expression, breathing pattern, tone of extremities, hand and foot activity, and level of activity. The lowest and the highest scores obtainable from the scale are 0 and 10, respectively. As the score increases, stress and pain increase.