How PICC Excellence Individual Training and Team/Organizational Solutions Differ

PICC Excellence separates its offerings into three paths: individual clinician training, team training through site licensing, and organizational solutions for hospitals and health systems. The right choice depends on how many learners you need to reach, whether you need to standardize education across departments or facilities, and whether you want to manage training at scale. If you are one clinician seeking certification or mastery, the individual path fits. If you are a manager equipping several clinicians with consistent education, site licensing is the intended route. If you are a hospital or health system standardizing practice across departments or an entire organization, the organizational path is designed for that scope.

Individual Clinician Training

This path is built for a single clinician who wants to build knowledge, clinical skills, certification, and mastery through courses, programs, and workshops.

Best suited for:

• One nurse or clinician pursuing certification on their own
• Professionals building insertion skills or competency at their own pace
• Individuals who want a structured pathway toward mastery in a specific area

What it includes: Access to courses, programs, and workshops, plus the certification and mastery pathways described below.

Team Training via Site Licensing

Team training provides consistent vascular access education to multiple clinicians through flexible site licensing. The site license model is the mechanism for giving a group of clinicians the same education rather than enrolling each person separately.

Best suited for:

• A department or unit with several clinicians who need the same training
• Managers who want consistent education across their team
• Groups that need flexibility in how many learners are covered

What it includes: Consistent education for PICC, ultrasound, IV therapy, midline, neonatal, and pediatric vascular access across your team.

Organizational Solutions

Organizational solutions are aimed at hospitals and health systems that need to standardize evidence-based education across departments, facilities, or an entire healthcare organization.

Best suited for:

• Hospitals standardizing practice across multiple units
• Health systems aligning education across facilities
• Organizations that need to manage education at scale

What it includes: The ability to standardize education organization-wide, build competency through a combination of online learning, simulation, supervised practice, competency assessment, and mastery pathways, and choose focused programs or broader access based on your organization, number of learners, and training goals.

Certification and Mastery Programs

These structured pathways support vascular access knowledge, insertion skills, competency, and professional growth. They are available across the individual, team, and organizational paths:

How to Choose

Use these dimensions to decide:

• Number of learners: One clinician → individual training. Several clinicians → site licensing. Many learners across departments or facilities → organizational solutions.
• Training goal: Certification or personal mastery → individual path. Consistent team education → site licensing. Organization-wide standardization → organizational solutions.
• Scale of management: If you need to manage education at scale and choose between focused programs or broader access, the organizational path is built for that decision.

PICC Excellence reports more than 30 years in vascular access education, with 20,068 clinicians trained, 128,176 courses completed, 422 certifications awarded, and 701 organizations served — context for the scale the organizational and team paths are designed to support.