Despite the lifecourse focus of nursing clinical care, nursing research largely remains cross-
sectional or process-oriented within silos determined by patient characteristics such as age,
acuity, or disease process. Incorporating interdisciplinary lifecourse theory into pediatric
nursing research provides the opportunity to expand nursing theories and research beyond
practice, age, and disease silos. One such theory is the Lifecourse Health Development
(LCHD) framework. LCHD takes a more expansive view of health development from …