While it is true that placing an IVC is a skill that can easily be learned with appropriate training, so can MANY of the skills useful in a veterinary practice (intubation, suturing, subgingival scaling, etc.). This is why we attend AVMA approved schools-so that APPROPRIATE TRAINING is guaranteed and verified. Those people who want their ‘long nurses’ to be able to do it should encourage those folks to get licensed; but if those same people can do everything without having to spend the money on school, and practices can hire and employ those people while paying less, what’s the point in school, licenses, or value of personal accountability? How, without licensure and schooling, are you going to differentiate and regulate between ‘qualified and capable’ people vs. an overeager newbie who thinks it’s no big deal and are ready to place one, but aren’t capable or knowledgeable enough to do so safely?