Node with ShareSurface healthcare seating

Designed to foster a better shared healthcare experience for clinicians, patients and family members. Introducing Node with ShareSurface. ®

COMPROMISED INTERACTIONS While exam rooms often host multiple participants—patient, clinician and family member—the current infrastructure doesn’t support eye-to-eye communication, reinforces traditional hierarchy postures between clinician and patient and minimizes opportunities for shared decision making. COMPROMISED CONNECTION When technology isn’t thoughtfully integrated in exam spaces, transitions between inputting data, sharing information and the physical exam become awkward and disjointed. With technology creating a barrier between patients and clinicians, patients feel like they connect...

Shared Experience Designed to remove barriers between patients, clinicians and family members—Node with ShareSurface nurtures human connection. Seat height-adjustability levels the playing field for clinicians and patients, supporting shoulder-to-shoulder collaboration and eye-to-eye contact, facilitating mutual teaching and learning. By integrating technology with Node, clinicians take information with them as they move throughout a space, bringing everyone in the room into the healthcare experience.

Shared Information While the use of technology in healthcare isn’t a new concept, the thoughtful integration of that technology is. Node with ShareSurface optimizes the use of technology in healthcare spaces, without creating a barrier between clinician and patient. Whether ShareSurface is directed toward the clinician to input information, swiveled toward the patient to share information or stowed to the side during the physical exam, the patient and clinician remain connected throughout the experience. INPUT ShareSurface adjusts to shift technology closer or farther away so clinicians can input...

Shared Space Node optimizes exam room spaces by combining a worksurface for technology and information sharing with sleek ergonomic seating, all within an efficient footprint. ShareSurface—with 180° side-to-side pivot and 360° surface rotation—provides superior sharing coverage in less space. Its thoughtful design is ideal for transitioning between rooms and throughout an exam space. Node goes beyond the exam room, serving as a reliable seating solution for infusion bays as well. As clinicians move from bay to bay, Node with ShareSurface offers technology mobility and ergonomic support so clinicians...

Supportive Seating From room to room and patient to patient—clinicians are on the go all day long. Node features a flexible back and passive lumbar curve, so doctors can transition between multiple postures comfortably. Whether reclined in a relaxed position or shifted forward to engage closely with a patient, Node’s stable base and secure armrests support a natural range of motion for comfort from the first appointment to the last.

SUSTAINABILITY Design Details MID-BACK CHAIR OPTIONS CLEANABILITY SHARESURFACE ShareSurface non-handed arm moves from right to left, while the surface swivels 360° to optimize collaboration. Without upholstery or seams, this seating solution features highly cleanable materials, from the casters to the seat shell to the worksurface. tripod base with ShareSurface and casters five-star base with ShareSurface SEAT SHELL Available in mid- and high-back options, Node's seat shell offers durable seat construction that contours to the natural curve of the spine for comfort and support. FIVE-STAR BASE...

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