A report on the Nursing Shortage Reduction Act of 1987, a bill to amend Title VIII of the Public Health Service Act, is presented. The bill would establish programs to reduce the shortage of professional nurses. A special advisory committee consisting of representatives of professional nursing and other organizations, hospitals, and experts in rural health care would be established to develop a plan specifying long-term solutions to the problems experienced by hospitals and health care institutions in recruiting and retaining professional nurses. The bill authorizes a grant to a nonprofit private entity for a project to demonstrate and evaluate innovative hospital nursing practice models designed to reduce vacancies in hospital nursing positions and to make the hospital nursing position a more attractive career choice. The bill authorizes grants to and contracts with collegiate schools of nursing to demonstrate and evaluate innovative nursing practice models related to the provision of long-term care in the home or in long-term care facilities. The bill also authorizes grants and contracts to operate regional model professional nurse recruitment centers to recruit students for professional nursing education programs. (SW)