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

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.