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.