SDCL § 61-1-38: Student nurses, interns, and hospital patients exempt.

As used in this title, the term, employment, does not include:

(1) Service performed as a student nurse in the employ of a hospital or nurses training school by an individual who is enrolled in and is regularly attending classes in a nurses training school chartered or approved pursuant to state law; and service performed as an intern in the employ of a hospital by an individual who has completed a four years' course in a medical school chartered or approved pursuant to state law; or

(2) Service performed in the employ of a hospital, if such service is performed by a patient of the hospital, as defined in § 61-1-1.