Promoting professional behavior in practice

Becoming a midwife is the 16th series of 'Midwifery basics' targeted at practicing midwives and midwifery students. The aim of these articles is to provide information to raise awareness of the impact of professionalism on women's experience, consider the implications for midwives' practice and encourage midwives to seed further information through a series of activities relating to the topic. In this fourth article of the series, Jancis Shepherd discusses the issues of maintaining confidentiality, use of social media and veracity of students' practice assessment documents, to demonstrate the need to uphold the NMC Code (2015a) in clinical practice.