Estes named ICU nurse manager at Mayo

    DOVER-FOXCROFT — Samantha Estes, RN, who began her nursing career at Mayo Regional Hospital in 1999, has returned to Mayo as Nurse Manager of the Intensive Care Unit.

    Estes, a graduate of Penquis Valley High School in Milo, has previous experience working in the ICU at Eastern Maine Medical Center in Bangor. Most of her clinical experience has been in the Emergency Department setting, where she has worked for 10 years at EMMC, St. Joseph’s Hospital and Mayo.
    Estes has five years of leadership experience in supervisory roles at EMMC, where she has been a house nursing supervisor, a clinical supervisor in the ED, and has most recently worked as a Transfer Center Nurse. At EMMC’s Transfer Center, she coordinated transfers from outlying facilities to EMMC, in addition to assisting with patient bed placement.
    The new ICU manager is a graduate of Husson University in Bangor, where she received her BSN in 1998 and a Master’s in Business Administration in 2010. Estes also completed the Graduate Leadership Academy, a partnership between the Advisory Board and EMMC.