Professional Development of Nursing Professionals During the past years, we’ve witnessed a tremendous growth in the health crisis, but also the education. With skills that are needed to compete with these, health care advancement technologies and well being of these population growth are in crisis. As comprehensive as the need for health care is being overhauled through the years, a claim has been made on the topic of “Nursing” as being one of the most important. Health is not only to the sustainment of our species, but also, it only makes logical sense to not only educate the practitioners of the profession, but also increase the need for advancement in the education being delivered. The diverse healthcare setting is warranting change to the academic profession of the Nursing practice to accommodate the challenges of cultural and socioeconomic factors of health care populations. Due to the advancing stages of health care and recent health care reform, The Affordable Care Act of 2010 has placed a surge with more insured demographic change, the aging population and the chronically ill with comorbidities has placed need for professionals to practice with full competencies of leadership, critical thinking, evidence base practice, research and system improvements to accommodate the demand. According to The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation and Institute of Medicine (IOM) (2010), they have given a report for more surge for nursing professionals of various levels to acquire higher learning of educational background to meet the health demand. Within the year 2020 health care settings of all nurses should attain a Bachelor’s Degree increasing to 80 percent. With the doubling of nurses with Doctorate Degrees, nurses should engage in lifelong learning. Implementing Nurses Residency transiting to practice when seeking advance practice into new clinical practice