Allowing IV catheter placement to become a skill an unlicensed professional can perform will decrease the standards and prestige of veterinary medicine. In order to protect the public and instill trust in our profession, we must increase the standards. This means the public can be comfortable those working on their beloved companions are adequately trained to perform the skill. When you allow anyone to train someone on placing an IV catheter, you also allow flexible guidelines and increase the risk to each and every patient thereafter. This isn't about the ability for one without a license to place an IV, this is about increasing quality standards for our patients. When you begin to relax standards, quality suffers and our profession becomes less respected in society. We need to be looking at certifying regulations for veterinary assistants and increase quality medicine with support for our DVMs. Lets partner with our human medicine friends and learn from where they have been. Taking steps back will hurt each and every animal that some call their own children by decreasing their worth, their value, and making our profession one of a joke. Support education, increasing standards, improving quality, and protect the public from poor trained professionals by having regulations that require a license of high regard.