About Us

PICC Resource Associates , LLC
PICC Resource started out offering vascular access continuing education for nurses and other clinicians and facilities in 2003. To date we have provided vascular access programs for thousands of health care professionals from throughout the U.S.. We strive to offer no less than excellence in our services. We offer continuing education classes for nurses through our education department, and IV access and infusion nursing services in Connecticut through our IV Services department.

Continuing Education Programs
Our continuing education classes are developed and taught using industry standards set  by the leading national professional organizations that guide best practice in infusion therapy and vascular access. We offer scheduled continuing education workshops, and private classes at our training center Trumbull, Connecticut. Classes are scheduled several times a year in IV catheter insertion, and PICC and Midline insertion, IV Infusion Therapy Essentials, Central Line care and maintenance. Several courses are offered as online classes and hybrid online/live class formats,.

Vascular Access and Home Infusion Nursing Services
We provide home IV infusion therapy in Connecticut. Our nurses provide infusion and high tech vascular access care in the comfort of patients' homes, physician offices, infusion centers, and  other health care facilities .
Click here for more information on our IV nursing services.

Contact Us
Our office is located on 55 Merritt Boulevard, in Trumbull, Connecticut. To contact us by phone call: 1 (888) 459-4913 and choose option 2 for education programs, or option 1 for infusion or vascular access nursing services for patients.

Alice Cennamo, MSN, RN, CRNI, VA-BC

Alice Cennamo is PICC Resource Associates, LLC's company founder, president, and lead educator. Alice is a graduate of Connecticut's Norwalk Technical Community College's School of Nursing, Sacred Heart University's Bachelor of Science in Nursing, and Sacred Heart University's Master of Science in Nursing - Nurse Educator program. She first developed a love for IV nursing in the mid while working with mobile IV teams. Since then she has specialized in IV infusion therapy and vascular access within multiple clinical settings. Alice's extensive background includes clinical and leadership experience working in and heading IV/PICC teams, home infusion nursing services, and in developing IV and phlebotomy education in organizational development for hospital clinicians. Alice has obtained national certification in multiple areas of infusion and vascular access including: CRNI (Infusion Nurse Specialist) by the Infusion Nurses Certification Corporation (for more about CRNIs- click here), and board certification as a VA-BC (vascular access specialist) by the Vascular Access Certification Corporation (for more about VA-BC credential- click here). Alice is an active member of the national Infusion Nurses Society (INS), the Association of Vascular Access, (AVA), the Immunoglobulin National Society (IgNS), and a past president, membership chair, and board of directors member of the former INS Connecticut Chapter. Click here to contact Alice by email, or by phone, click here.

In addition to Alice Cennamo, PICC Resource employs highly qualified and experienced infusion and/or vascular access nurse specialists to assist as needed, Our instructors are nationally certified IV therapy experts that offer high quality education services to our clientele

Frequently Asked Questions

PICC Resource education programs are designed for the continuing education of nursing health care professionals.

PICC Resource Associates educators offer continuing education in infusion and vascular access procedures. Continuing education differs from vocational education. The main difference is that continuing education is designed to educate health professionals and add to the professional's existing knowledge and skills. Continuing education is not offered to the general public. Vocational training by colleges and vocational schools is open to the general public to prepare to enter a new vocation.

PICC Resource is an approved provider of continuing nursing education through the Florida Board of Nursing: Educational Provider number 50-26716. With the exception of a few states that require in-state approval for CE credits (such as California) , the CE credits in nursing contact hours granted from PICC Resource continuing education programs are accepted nationally. The quality of nursing continuing education (CE) providers and programs is assured when the programs are accredited by state regulatory boards or the American Nurses Credentialing Corporation. 

Our director of education  and lead instructor has a master degree in nursing education, and is dual board certified as a CRNI and VA-BC by the leading national professional organizations: the Vascular Access Certification Corporation (VACC), and the Infusion Nursing Certification Corporation (INCC). Our instructors work clinically as infusion and vascular access nurses, they are vascular access experts with exceptional nursing experience in infusion nursing and vascular access.

Our online classes are designed to fit your schedule. The online courses are interactive and are based on evidence-based theory . The classes are available 24/7 for a full year after enrollment. Click here to sign up, or learn more about our online classes.

To meet best practice standards, the first step to becoming competent to insert PICC lines is to complete a PICC insertion education program that meets national standards and guidelines.

The next step after completing class training is to perform PICC insertions under the supervision of an experienced PICC clinician. Clinicians are deemed "PICC qualified" to perform PICC insertion procedures once the clinician is deemed independent and competent in the procedure per employing facility policies.

After becoming independent in performing PICC insertion procedures with a preceptor and inserting a minimum of 25 PICC catheters, clinicians may optionally take an exam through a private company to further verify competency in the procedure,

Nurses working in the field of infusion and/or vascular access that seek to expand their professional options - may qualify to take the exam for national certification as an infusion specialist and/or board certification as a vascular access specialist through national professional specialty organizations.

PICC Resource has implemented multiple COVID-19 protocols including instructor and assistant protocols, classroom and equipment cleaning, and limiting the number of attendees to our in-person class workshops. Our classroom has been fitted with individual desks, and we have desk barrier shields available on-hand to put in place if new outbreaks occur. During times of high infection risk of COVID-19 and other high risk respiratory illnesses, our instructors and assistants may wear a mask, and we may ask class attendees to wear a mask while in the classroom and/or during skills training sessions when not otherwise protected. Additionally, our class registration process requires that clients agree to not attend our in-person classes if the Client has symptoms of, or is within the communicable period following exposure to COVID-19, RSV, or the Flu virus.