Katie Hill graduated with a First Class Honours degree in Children's and General Nursing from Trinity College Dublin in April 2012. Throughout her training she developed a passion for paediatric palliative care and in October 2011 she won the 'Undergraduate Award of Ireland and Northern Ireland for Nursing' for her paper on that topic. Katie has since published an article on paediatric palliative care in Ireland and the UK with Prof Imelda Coyne (TCD) in the British Journal of Nursing. After graduating Katie spent 6 months volunteering in a paediatric hospice in China. The lecture explores her experiences in the Butterfly Children's Hospice, discussing the mix of emotions experienced while working in a cross cultural paediatric palliative care setting.