Problem
How might any of the following situations be modified to be more comfortable for the client, you, and the healthcare staff?
1. A Native American client wants to burn herbs in their room and wants to see a healer from their tribe while in the facility.
2. A lesbian is at your clinic for intrauterine insemination, accompanied by her female partner.
3. A client who is a Jehovah's Witness is seriously hemorrhaging and refuses to have a blood transfusion.
4. A client is accused of child abuse after performing religious healing rites that left bruises on their child; the client is in the hospital for mental health evaluation to determine if they will be competent to stand trial.
5. An Amish woman refuses to take off her customary clothing and put on a hospital gown before a diagnostic test.
6. A family from Somalia refuses to leave their child alone in the hospital.