aides and attendants on our staff. All are between the ages of 17 and 45, the average being 18 years. They have been graduated from high school or have comparable education or experience. Many of our attendants are young men who are attending junior college and who work four to six hours daily during the school week and sometimes eight hours on Saturdays and Sundays. The classroom instruction consists of 19 hours of demonstrations and practice during the first week of employment. This time is included in the 44-hour work schedule. After the aides and attendants complete the course, the in-service director continues to observe their work frequently and note their progress. She encourages them and tries to gain a e approximately 110 nur es' their confidence so that they, in turn, will feel free to seek additional help or advice from her. They do not feel that they are being supervised by someone who is just looking for errors. We plan to continue periodic group meetings and to present an educational movie or a lecture quarterly on some pertinent topic which may make their work as a whole more interesting and the care of patients more satisfying. We agree with Oscar Ewing, former federal security administrator, who once said, "We who are responsible for the work of other people, are responsible for their growth and development."