Ms Alison Ballantyne

School of Nursing and Midwifery

Division of Health Sciences

• Care of older people
• Policy and service provision for older people
• Health maintenance and promotion for older people
• Rehabilitation practice
• Leadership and management in health and aged care
• Professional issues in nursing
• Qualitative research

Royal College of Nursing, Australia

Australian Nursing Federation

Australian Association of Gerontology

Geriaction

Master of Educational Administration

Bachelor in Education

Gerontic Nursing Certificate

• Qualitative research
• Care of older people
• Policy and service provision for older people
• Health maintenance and promotion for older people
• Living arrangements, health and older people
• Rehabilitation practice

Journal Articles (Since 2000)

Cheek, J, Ballantyne, A. Jones, J., Roder-Allen, G. & Kitto, S. (2003) Ensuring Excellence: An investigation of the issues that impact on the registered nurse providing residential care to older Australians, International Journal of Nursing Practice, 9 (2), 103-111.

Paradisco, L., Roughead, E. Gilbert, A, Cosh, D., Nation, R. Barnes, L. Cheek, J. & Ballantyne, A. (2002) Crushing or altering medications: What’s happening in residential aged-care, Australasian Journal on Ageing, 21 (3), 123-127.

Jones, J., Cheek, J. & Ballantyne, A. (2002). Providing Residential Care to Older Australians: Issues for registered nurses, Contemporary Nurse, June, 12(3), 225-234.

Cheek, J. & Ballantyne, A. (2001). Moving Them On and In: the Process of Searching for and Selecting an Aged Care Facility, Qualitative Health Research, 11(2), 221-237.

Cheek, J. & Ballantyne, A. (2001). Coping with Crisis: How Australian Families Search For and Select an Aged Care Facility For a Family Member Upon Discharge From an Acute Care Setting, Contemporary Nurse, 10(1), 10-18.

Gilbert, A., Cheek, J., Sansom, L., Ballantyne, A., Penhall, R. & Jones, J., (2001). Quality Use of Medicines in Residential Aged Care: Issues Affecting Implementation of Best Practice Guidelines Gerontology, 47, Supplement 1, 166, July.

Gilbert, A., Cheek, J., Sansom, L., Ballantyne, A., Penhall, R. & Jones, J. (2001). Quality Use of Medicines in Residential Aged Care. The Need for Medication Advisory Committees in Residential Aged Care Facilities, Internal Medicine Journal.

Fuller, J. & Ballantyne, A. (2000). Immigrants and Equitable Health Care Delivery in Rural Areas, Australian Journal of Rural Health, 8, 189-193.

Pincombe, J., Brown, M., Thorne, D., Ballantyne, A. & McCutcheon, H. (2000). Care of Dying Patients in the Acute Hospital: An exploratory study, Progress in Palliative Care, 8(2), 71-77.

Research Reports

Cheek, J., Ballantyne, A. & Byers, L. (2003) Changing places: An exploration of factors influencing the move of older people from retirement villages to residential aged care, University of South Australia & Village Care Ltd, Adelaide. ISBN 086803 996 9

Cheek, J, Jones, J., Ballantyne, A. & Roder-Allen, G. (2003) Making Choice: How older people living in independent living units decide to enter the acute care system, Socially Sustainable Health Research Centre and ACH Group, University of South Australia, Adelaide. ISBN 086803 959 4

Cheek, J, Ballantyne, A. Jones, J., Roder-Allen, G. & Kitto, S. (2002) Ensuring Excellence: An investigation of the issues that impact on the registered nurse providing residential care to older Australians, Centre for Research into Nursing and Health and ACH Group, University of South Australia, Adelaide. ISBN 086803 927 6

Ballantyne, A., Jones, J. & Cheek, J. (2001) Evaluation of the Handbook of Protocols for residential care services from the perspectives of the residents and their families, Centre for Research into Nursing and Health Care, University of South Australia & Southern Cross Bioethics Institute, Adelaide.