… When in quarantine: New robots keep nursing students, faculty learning in lab clinicals When COVID-19 had Nicole Carlson quarantined at her Sioux Falls home, the South Dakota State University nursing instructor didn’t have to … to Heidi Mennenga, an associate professor in Brookings who is the project director for a 2018 HRSA award. That $2.7 million award for 2018-2022 is targeted at more fully utilizing registered nurses and students in community-based primary care settings. It is because of that HRSA funding that SDSU was eligible to receive the HRSA COVID-19 funding, Mennenga said. The robots arrived in mid-October …