Care transitions are receiving widespread focus in academia, clinical practice, and executive and regulatory forums. Navigating a patient’s healthcare path is a complex process that is becoming a specialty unto itself. Finding the safest, most cost-effective continuum is currently one of healthcare’s hottest topics. Efforts to define transitional care have focused on determining a set of actions to minimize known risks, such as fragmentation, poor communication, and poor coordination, that can lead to unfavorable outcomes. Future efforts in transitional care should seek to integrate and improve care across continuums instead of in isolated circumstances and settings. Such efforts will reduce stress and increase the health and well-being of our society as a whole. Advanced practice studies should include focus on the broadened responsibility and complex communication skills required to advance transitional care and, in doing so, increase the satisfaction of patients and providers alike.