OF late attention has been focused on the kinds of records which should be kept by the industrial nurse. Much less has been said about criteria for the selection of record systems and about ways in which the nurses' records may be used effectively. Unless a record fits the job to be done, and unless every item in it is used for some purpose, much time, effort, and money are wasted. What can be more wasteful than workers waiting in line for care while the nurse records treatment given to the preceding worker, especially if the record will be used little, if at all, for improving the plant medical service. Yet I have seen this happen. A more common waste in the small industrial dispensaries I know is the time the nurse spends recording, after her hours on duty should be over, because she could not get it done during her busy day. There are still many small industrial plants, at least, where the persons planning the record system have apparently thought only of meeting contingencies that might arise under the compensation act. Such inadequate recording is as wasteful as too much recording poorly used, for cumulative individual health records are the cornerstone of health counseling. If a registered graduate nurse lacks the knowledge and tools for health counseling, much of her capacity for service better than