First we must consider the type of patient. We are told that neuro-psychiatric, contagious, and tuberculosis cases predominate. Right here is one difficulty as far as nurses are concerned. To contribute the highest type of service to people so afflicted requires that the living conditions, the mental and physical recreation and up-building of the nursing staff, be of the finest order. I think that this is conceded by all who consider the long hours during which the nurse is in close contact with the patient and who realize that no individual, barring none, has so large an opportunity for personal influence upon patients as the nurse. Nurses who are employed for the care of the veteran should be of the highest grade. Not only should they meet all the professional and technical requirements, but they should be especially qualified in all phases of rehabilitation and reconstruction, both mental and physical. They should have an especial knowledge of the problem of the tuberculosis patient, not only as an individual sick man, but in his relation to society. They should be thoroughly cognizant of the magnitude and urgency of the problem of social diseases, and without an ability to help the neuro-psychiatric patient redirect his interests into the world of reality and to correlate himself and his environment, they are failing in their whole duty to their patient. Under the present conditions it is probably not an easy matter to get such super-nurses in any great numbers, and even were it possible to secure them, it is not likely that they could be long retained. The turnover in the nursing service in hospitals caring for veterans is unduly large, the reports show. This has been due in some degree to physical breakdown, and also to dissatisfaction with conditions, including uncertainty as to their status and fears for its future. What, then, is to be done? The answer is not so hard to find. Locally, it is comfortable living quarters, reasonable hours, good food, the right sort of recreation, adequate pay, and opportunity for advancement and improvement. Nurses, like all other professional workers, are coming to recognize that in order to live up to their highest ideals and to give their best services to afflicted humanity, it is essential to make provision for continual growth, and that from time to time added inspiration and education are necessary. Courses of special study are advocated, therefore, for all nurses, especially for those caring for veterans or any other particularly difficult group of patients. Opportunity for post-graduate study is considered a necessity in the Army for both officers and members of the Nurse Corps, and it is even more important in the U.S. Public Health Service. In some hospitals of this service special courses have been conducted for nurses with marked success, but particular emphasis should be given to this phase of meeting the nursers’ problems. For before a nurse can help to