One of these tasks will be communicating with colleagues, patients, board members, doctors and more. They will oversee an entire office, or a unit of a hospital, or multiple units of a nursing care facility. In some cases they will be responsible for finances, a business cannot stay afloat without due attention to this. They may be responsible for scheduling employees. This is an integral part of the structure of any facility, after all they are on the front lines with the patients. They may be responsible for compliance standards, that is, ensuring that the practice and its employees comply with federal and state rules and regulations (O*Net