You are a patient in the hospital. They assign you a student RN. She is already a licensed LPN. She has to ask the instructor which part of the hip she gives the injection in. Do you say anything? Are you scared?

Not necessarily. Some injections are intradermal, most are intramuscular, and they may have preferred sites. That's what the instructor is for anyway. I'd rather have a nurse that asks her instructor than one who crosses his/her fingers and jabs the bit she thinks is most likely.

After all, it's not like she's amputating your leg or something.

She has to learn sometime but..........
Yes, you have the right to say something. You can ask for a more experienced RN.
My best friend, an RN for 30+ years, teaches phlebotomy and I would think that this LPN would have learned this basic before being allowed to inject someone. No one gets out of her class without knowing how and where to give an injection.
I'd be asking for a more experienced RN, no offense here mame, I would just be more comfortable.

She must have got her LPN license on the internet. Makes you wonder what/how they are teaching these days.

At least the nurse had the sense to ask. I'm always worried about folks that think they know more that evidence would indicate, especially if they are about to stick a sharp object into me.

If its me, I'll suffer in the name of science. For my kids, no way. One time, I took my son to the ER and a student nurse was trying to give him an IV. As I was watching, it was pretty clear that she was not experienced. I told her to stop and get someone in with more experience. She had already poked him twice and was going for #3.

Nervous only. As long as the instructor is there she is unlikely to kill me very much.

I'd be a bit nervous, and I'd probably (very politely) ask if someone else could give me the injection.

No. She has to learn somehow, and provided I trusted the instructor, I'd be comfortable with that. I'd be far more scared by a nurse who umm'ed and ahh'ed and didn't ask.