Healing

July 2025

Morgan Hoyt is grateful for the scholarships she has received while studying nursing at BYU. These have allowed her to work fewer hours so that she can focus more on her academics. She says, “I want to say thank you to those who donate to make scholarships possible. It pro¬vides opportunities to people who wouldn’t have the chance to go to school otherwise. It takes a lot of pressure off of finding funding for school. Scholarships are an amazing opportunity that have helped me out a lot.” 

Hoyt originally wanted to study education, but as a senior in high school, she started to consider nursing. She says, “Different people just got me on the idea of nursing and said that I would be a good nurse. As I started doing my own research, I could tell nursing would be really great for me. I decided this was what I wanted to pursue. I really love being able to take care of people.” 

When Hoyt was a teenager, her parents started an integrative med¬icine practice. Her dad works with people with chronic diseases and autoimmune diseases and tries to help them heal. Hoyt started working for the company when she was a junior in high school. She learned how to put together electronic health records and set up all the technology related to the company; she was also the office manager and receptionist. 

This early exposure to helping patients strengthened Hoyt’s desire to be a nurse. She explains, “Being able to see how my dad was helping people helped me to know that I wanted to do nursing. In my career, I would love to be able to focus on the more holistic side of medicine and the natural ways of healing.” 

Now a fourth-semester student in the BYU College of Nursing, she truly loves learning about patient care. She enjoys the camaraderie she feels with the other nursing students. They all come from different backgrounds and interests, but despite these differ¬ences, they have been able to come together as friends. 

Hoyt also appreciates the focus on the gospel and the Savior in every¬thing she studies. She says, “I think that the BYU College of Nursing is really amazing in the way that they have everything set up so that we’re not only learning values, techniques, and skills. We are focusing on learning the Healer’s art. I love that every¬thing we do and every class ties back to Christ.”