Bundle up: Introducing care bundles to increase knowledge and confidence of senior nursing students

• Complexity of care in acute care requires bridging the gap between theory and practice.
• Introducing evidence-based practice prelicensure can facilitate transition to safe clinical practice.
• Care bundles provide students with tools to promote better patient outcomes.
• Students reported meaningful increases in knowledge and confidence postintervention.
• Simulation is an appropriate teaching methodology to introduce care bundles.

Nursing graduates transitioning to practice are expected to be safe and competent practitioners. Health organizations promote the use of evidence-based practices such as care bundles to improve patient outcomes and provide quality health care. This research describes the introduction of 2 care bundles, sepsis, and acute stroke to senior associate degree nursing students in a clinical day on campus. The researchers used high-fidelity simulation as a teaching methodology to increase knowledge and confidence level in caring for patients in the clinical setting.