I am against allowing non licensed personnel placing IV catheters. As someone who graduated in Virginia and then has moved to a state where assistants are too, I have personally seen the ramifications. In school are taught about the risks, about proper preparation, we are guided through the entire process. Where is the value on our education? Human medicine has spent so much time enforcing strict guidelines on where one qualification start and one ends. Yet those of us who have payed and gone through education and must continue with CE every year have to constantly fight for our rights to remain valued. Patients deserve gold standard care and proper care from DVM, LVTs, and assistants. This means keeping that firm line on enforcing standards.