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Rn pulled patient's meds from omni drawer.At this time, rn noticed that patient's furosemide dose (3.6 mg = 0.36 ml) (drawn up in a 1 ml purple enfit oral syringe) had leaked past the plunger at the bottom of the syringe, leaving a large air bubble at the top of the syringe.Enough medication leaked out of the syringe that the there was only 0.30 ml of the medication left, leaving an inadequate dose.Rn contacted pharmacy about the issue and reordered the medication.At 20:50, rn received new dose of furosemide from pharmacy via the p tube.This time the medication was sent in a 0.5 ml purple enfit oral syringe, but rn noticed the same issue had occurred.Medication had leaked past the plunger, leaving a smaller dose than intended (0.31 ml).Rn was able to combine the two doses of furosemide (both doses had same concentration 10 mg/ml) to administer the correct dose (0.36 ml) to pt (in orange neoconnect enfit oral syringe).At 21:05, rn contacted pharmacy again in regards to the leaking enfit oral syringes.Pharmacy, at first thinking rn was reading syringe incorrectly, requested to show rn how to read the oral syringes.Rn offered to present the syringes to pharmacy and pharmacy agreed.Rn brought both oral syringes to pharmacy where the pharmacists confirmed that the syringes had in fact leaked past the plunger.Syringes were left with pharmacist, who stated they would contact the proper individuals to report the issue.Rn also notified and sent a picture of syringes to educators.An hour later, rn administered medication to patient with no further issues.
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