Profile: The nurses

Bev Small, RN, (left) graduated from Dartmouth Hitchcock School of Nursing. She has worked in Children’s Hospital Boston’s Cardiac Intensive Care Unit for 25 years. She helped organize the first mission to Kumasi, Ghana, in October of last year. She did medical missions in Leon, Nicaragua from 1999 to 2006, and has done a yearly medical mission to Haiti to provide basic medical care to local villages since 2001.

Christine Placidi, RN, BSN, (center) graduated from Curry College with a Bachelor of Science in Nursing. She has worked in Children’s Hospital Boston’s Cardiac Intensive Care Unit for eight years. She went on the first mission to Kumasi, Ghana, in October of last year, and previously participated in four similar missions to Leon, Nicaragua.

Judy Hurley, RN, BSN, (right) graduated from Northeastern University. She has worked at Children’s Hospital Boston for 27 years, 25 of which have been in the Cardiac Intensive Care Unit. She went on the first mission to Kumasi, Ghana, in October of last year, and has participated in six surgical missions to Leon, Nicaragua.