As a nurse practitioner manager, your responsibilities revolve around supervising a nursing department at a medical institution. This includes ensuring that each patient gets the health care they need, helping doctors prescribe medication, and providing leadership for the nursing staff. You spend the time to ensure your institution has enough qualified personnel to function, make decisions about budgeting, ensure the office has sufficient inventory, and supervise routine duties of staff. On occasion, you may develop an educational program to improve overall patient care. This is primarily an administrative position, but you still need to know how to treat patients so you can direct the other nurses in the unit to the correct treatment plans.