Innovator

Archetype 5 Innovator

Innovators will usually have four main goals:

  • Developing or creating new applications, relationships, systems, or products.
  • Providing creative ideas or artistic contributions.
  • Keeping up-to-date technically and applying new knowledge to your job.
  • Benchmarking, experimenting and testing novel approaches to solving problems.

Inspector

Archetype 6 Inspector

Inspectors should be great at:

  • Estimating sizes, distances, and quantities; or determining time, costs, resources, or materials needed to perform a work activity.
  • Observing, receiving, and otherwise obtaining information from all relevant sources.
  • Identifying information by categorizing, estimating, recognizing differences or similarities, and detecting changes in circumstances or events.
  • Inspecting equipment, structures, or materials to identify the cause of errors or other problems or defects.

Other work activities related to Diagnostic medical sonographers

  • Deciding which images to include, looking for differences between healthy and pathological areas.
  • Observing screen during the scanning for ensuring that the image produced is satisfactory for diagnostic purposes, making adjustments to equipment as required.
  • Observing and caring for patients throughout examinations for ensuring their safety and comfortability.
  • Providing sonogram and oral or written summary of technical findings to physician for using in medical diagnosis.
  • Operating ultrasound equipment for producing and recording images of the motion, shapes, and composition of blood, organs, tissues, or bodily masses, such as fluid accumulations.
  • Selecting appropriate equipment settings and adjusting patient positions for obtaining the best sites and angles.
  • Determining whether scope of exam should be extended, based on findings.
  • Processing and coding film from procedures and completing appropriate documentation.
  • Obtaining and recording accurate patient history, including prior testing results or information from physical examinations.