I'd start asking questions about the induction policy at your hospital. I have had two inductions dd1 and dd3, first one awful, 2nd one pretty good.
First one was ARM, followed by immediate syntocin drip and was way too fast and painful. If I'd known then what I know now, I would have insisted on waiting between ARM and drip as I think breaking my waters would have been enough (I was 40+14, as per policy). Failing that I would have wanted an epidural.
Four years later everything had changed. Shiny new mlu usually want you to go in at +10 to allow extra time for new induction procedure before +14. One propess(sp?) pessary was enough and I got to stay in mlu. But at midnight they wanted to move me to horrible old consultant led unit for continuous monitoring.
Which is all a long way of saying, I didn't refuse induction because I knew I wouldn't have been able to live with myself if something had gone wrong and I had gone against advice, however small the risk and arbitrary the policy. And the best way to manage an induction IMO, is to arm yourself with as much info as possible so you can be proactive about your care. If I had waited till +15, no mlu, no waterbirth, no natural 3rd stage...
Good luck, I broke my heart going to hospital for dd3 as we were already for a home waterbirth, but it turned out fine