The Lopez Awardees

2026 Recipients
Abdulkarim O. Agga (Qatar) — Caring Nurse–Patient Interaction, Patient Satisfaction, and Quality of Life of Patients in Home Health Care
Edmon S. Regachuelo (United States of America) — Organizational Culture and Professional Quality of Life of Filipino Nurse Educators in the USA: A Structural Equation Modeling Approach
Cherry Ann Ballad (Oman) — Development and Psychometric Evaluation of the Toxic Work Environment for Nursing Faculty Scale (TWENFS)
Ma. Christine Rose Orbase (New Zealand) — A Nurse-Led Capacity Building Program for Dementia Caregivers Based on a Person-Centered Care Approach
Princess Villamin (Australia) — Retention of Migrant Nurses in Regional Western Australia: A Qualitative Descriptive Study
Ardee L. Domingo (United States of America) — Development of a Proposed Certification Program on Simulation-Based Teaching for Nurse Educators: A Multi-Phased Design
Pablito Robert Gahol (United States of America) — Perspectives of Healthcare Leaders on Effective Communication and Interprofessional Collaboration among Professional Caregivers in Intensive Care Units in the U.S.
Albien Rafael Tubongbanua (United States of America) — The Lived Experience of Doctoral Nursing Students with English as an Additional Language (EAL): Perspectives from Graduates
William Son Galanza (Sweden) — Technologies Supporting Engagement in Everyday Activities in Later Life
Floro Cubelo (Finland) — Building Pathways for Filipino Internationally Educated Nurses’ Mobility to the Nordic Region: Recruit, Integrate, Retain, and Sustain – A Nurse Labour Migration Model



2025 Recipients
Maria Mares (Australia) — Exploring the relationship between health literacy, self-efficacy, and self-management in people with coronary heart disease using a mixed methods approach: The RHYTHM Study
Rizaldy Bandola (United States of America) — Enriching Nutritional Status in the Intensive Care Unit Through Early Enteral Nutrition
Reynaldo Capucao, Jr. (United States of America) — Pressed into Starched Whites: Nursing (Dis)ability in Filipino/American History
Tenber Grota (Australia) — Nurse-surgeons in the Australian public health system: A mixed methods study
Mary Anne Lagmay Tanay (United Kingdom) — Development of a behavioural intervention to reduce the impact of chemotherapy-induced peripheral neuropathy using Experience-Based Co-Design and the Common Sense Model
Dr. Blaise Nieve (United States of America) — A Path Analysis of Intent to Stay as Estimated by Job Embeddedness, Sociocultural Adaptation, and Job Satisfaction Among Filipino Nurses in the United Kingdom



2024 Recipients
Dion Candelaria, RN, PhD — Patient-focused outcomes in cardiac rehabilitation: Influence of service delivery characteristics
Kaara Calma, RN, PhD — An exploration of final-year undergraduate nursing students’ perceptions of general practice nursing
C.J. Cabilan, PhD, MAppSc(Res), RN, MACN, FCENA — The development, implementation, and evaluation of a digital occupational violence patient risk assessment tool in the emergency department
Maricris Algoso, RN, PhD — The value of undergraduate Assistant in Nursing (AIN) employment in the aged care setting: Developing transferrable skills and increasing workforce readiness